The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity..

Now begin in the middle, and later learn the beginning; the end will take care of itself..

The trap into which all writers have, will, or should fall into, of writing The Great American Watchamacallit, is such an uncluttered and inviting on….

Like a wind crying endlessly through the universe, Time carries away the names and the deeds of conquerors and commoners alike. And all that we were,….

The ability to dream is all I have to give. That is my responsibility; that is my burden. And even I grow tired..

I will use big words from time to time, the meanings of which I may only vaguely perceive, in hopes such cupidity will send you scampering to your di….

K is for "Kenghis Khan"; He was a very nice person. History has no record of him. There is a moral in that, somewhere..

The real story of our times is seldom told in the horse-puckey-filled memoirs of dopey, self-serving presidents or generals, but in the outrageous, d….

I was the green monkey, the pariah. And I had no friends. Not just a few friends, or one good friend, or grudging acceptance by other misfits and out….

Everybody has a talent, whether it's scrapbooking, or kite-flying, or brain surgery, or writing, everybody has a talent. And if they discover it, and….

I've only been an asshole to assholes!.

The world is turning into a cesspool of imbeciles..

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. ….

Writing is the hardest work in the world. I have been a bricklayer and a truck driver, and I tell you – as if you haven't been told a million times a….

My philosophy of life is that the meek shall inherit nothing but debasement, frustration and ignoble deaths; that there is security in personal stren….

To say more, is to say less..

I refuse to write the same story twice. I keep experimenting. I keep learning how to work. I've been at it pretty much 50 years, and I'm now beginnin….

The real name for 'science' is magic..

For the first time we have a weapon that nobody has used for thirty years. This gives me great hope for the human race..

I don't know how you perceive my mission as a writer, but for me it is not a responsibility to reaffirm your concretized myths and provincial prejudi….

I will live to piss in the open mouths or the open graves of my enemies, whichever comes first..