Star Wars is adolescent nonsense; Close Encounters is obscurist drivel; ‘Star Trek’ can turn your brains into puree of bat guano; and the greatest sc….

And we passed through the cavern of rats. And we passed through the path of boiling steam. And we passed through the country of the blind. And we pas….

I hate being wrong, but I love it when I'm set straight..

Posing the question: does the god of love use underarm deodorant, vaginal spray and fluoride toothpaste?.

I never send a story off until I have read it aloud to at least two or three people. Because when I read - and I don't need their criticism, what I n….

I don't mind you thinking I'm stupid, but don't talk to me like I'm stupid..

Entertain, yes. That goes without saying. But a good writer does that automatically, it's built into the machine. Telling a thumpingly good, mesmeriz….

You're a writer. And that's something better than being a millionaire. Because it's something holy..

I am responsible for myself. I am exactly who I eventually wanted myself to be, I guess, without consciously knowing what I wanted me to be..

I usually say I write for the smartest, cleverest, wittiest audience I know, and that's me..

People don't die from the old diseases any more. They die from new ones, but that's Progress, isn't it? Isn't it?.

In these days of widespread illiteracy, functional illiteracy... anything that keeps people stupid is a felony..

Thank your readers and the critics who praise you, and then ignore them. Write for the most intelligent, wittiest, wisest audience in the universe: W….

It is a love/hate relationship I have with the human race. I am an elitist, and I feel that my responsibility is to drag the human race along with me….

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….

What I try to write about are the darkest things in the soul, the mortal dreads... The closer I get to the burning core of my being, the things which….

There in the midst of the Amazon Jungle, Simon Haskell has cobbled up for himself a replica of an Art Deco salon..

In my ugly, elitist opinion we are not all entitled to voice our opinions, we are entitled to pass along our informed opinions..

The trick is not becoming a writer. The trick is staying a writer..

When you're a writer, you have to have the passion and the skill and the craft. It's not just enough to have the passion. You've gotta have all three..

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 T….