You can't fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.

My characters are quite as real to me as so-called real people; which is one reason why I'm not subject to what is known as loneliness. I have plenty of company.

As an old junk pusher told me, 'Watch whose money you pick up.'

in the magical universe there are no coincidences and there are no accidents. nothing happens unless someone wills it to happen

Every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage.

Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative.

This is a war universe. War all the time. That is its nature. There may be other universes based on all sorts of other principles, but ours seems to be based on war and games. All games are basically hostile. Winners and losers. We see them all around us: the winners and the losers. The losers can oftentimes become winners, and the winners can very easily become losers.