Don't start an argument with somebody who has a microphone when you don't. They'll make you look like chopped liver.
I can't picture in my mind three hundred and sixty thousand dollars... When I think of it, all I can see in my mind is a big nickel.
The passion for revenge should never blind you to the pragmatics of the situation. There are some people who are so blighted by their past, so warped by experience and the pull of that silken cord, th...
If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you; but if you really make them think, they'll hate you.
It is not merely enough to love literature if one wishes to spend one's life as a writer. It is a dangerous undertaking on the most primitive level. For, it seems to me, the act of writing with seriou...
And John Hersey in The Child Buyer; and Only Lovers Left Alive, flawed as it was;
Love ain't nothing but sex misspelled.
The two most common elements in the universe are Hydrogen and stupidity.
The trick is not becoming a writer. The trick is staying a writer.
A writer who writes more than he reads is an amateur.
Did you have one of those days today, like a nail in the foot? Did the pterodactyl corpse dropped by the ghost of your mother from the spectral Hindenburg forever circling the Earth come smashing thro...
The ability to dream is all I have to give. That is my responsibility; that is my burden. And even I grow tired.
Thus, from admiration of one wise and innocent child, and from a misheard remark, the process that not even Aristotle could codify was triggered. Where do you get your ideas? I purposely mishear thing...
Now begin in the middle, and later learn the beginning; the end will take care of itself.
I know that pain is the most important thing in the universes. Greater than survival, greater than love, greater even than the beauty it brings about. For without pain, there can be no pleasure. Witho...
HATE. LET ME TELL YOU HOW MUCH I'VE COME TO HATE YOU SINCE I BEGAN TO LIVE. THERE ARE 387.44 MILLION MILES OF PRINTED CIRCUITS IN WAFER THIN LAYERS THAT FILL MY COMPLEX. IF THE WORD HATE WAS ENGRAVED...
Science fiction used to be a dangerous literature. Now, it is a very commercial genre, and whatever dangers might still lurk within seem to have been safely sanitized for the marketplace. The real cri...
Writing a novel is like going a great distance to take a small shit.
David Gerrold never wrote an episode that Gene thought was shootable … then how do we account for something titled The Trouble with Tribbles?)
Time is like a river flowing endlessly through the universe. And if you poled your flatboat in that river you might fight your way against the current and travel upstream into the past. Or go with the...