Leda: 'I would rather become an international adventuress and bring down kings and emperors.'Maxim: 'But this is the age of republics and democracies. It's much harder to seduce a committee.
One avoids becoming a Tolkien clone precisely by returning to the same roots that inspired The Lord of the Rings.
Oh, my beauty! Oh, my love. Soon your loins shall live--and throb to my pounding dork! Ah! Ah!
Life’s not easy, it is a hard task to live it well and with grace—but, by Hades, let’s not complicate it with deities and water-nymphs!
Tanelorn had taken many forms in her endless existence, but all those forms, save one, had been beautiful.
Legends are best left as legends and attempts to make them real are rarely successful
He was talking about hire purchase. precredit cards. A different way of getting the poor into debt, but I think he was right. It was nice when ordinary people could take a holiday in Spain, of course,...
Being an imperfect creature in an imperfect world he would always know paradox. And that was why in paradox there was always a kind of truth. That was why philosophers and soothsayers flourished. In a...
There was certainly much to be said for being at the mercy of the primeval elements, to be swept along by circumstances one could not in any way control, but it was good to return, to feel one's ident...
The authors who gathered around my magazine New Worlds shared my feelings that through literary SF we could regenerate Anglophone fiction. I am glad to say this experiment largely succeeded, so that m...
It is ironic that I saved both myself and those I cared for by recalling, at the crucial moment, my identity as an ordinary mortal. There are subtle dangers to the role of hero. I am glad I no longer...
Be wary of this devil-blade, Moonglum. It kills the foe - but savours the blood of friends and kinfolk most.
Corum knew that he was mad, in Vadhagh terms. But he supposed that he was sane enough in Mabden terms. And this was, after all, now a Mabden world. He must learn to accept its peculiar disorders as no...
To seek pain as a formof salvation is to destroy oneself.
Man was not born to a world of justice. But he can such a world!
It is our firm belief that we shall one day learn the plan of the entire multiverse and travel at will from Sphere to Sphere, from realm to realm, from world to world, travel through the great clouds...
I walk the moonbeam roads a silver web connecting the many worlds of the Multiverse.
Farewell, friend. I was a thousand times more evil than thou!
Religion was the creation of fear. Knowledge destroys fear. Without fear, religion can't survive.
I cannot justify my actions. Roldero had said that men must be judged by their deeds, not their motives. I offer such speculation only n the hope that by understanding our motives we may thus control...