Somebody else's ignorance is bliss..

A man is like a rope: both break at a definite strain....The solution is not splicing the rope; it's lessening the tension..

You used the word "civilization", which means a set of abstractions, symbols, conventions. Experience tends to be vicarious; emotions are predigested….

This is no science, this is art, where equations fall away to elements like resolving chords, and where always prevails a symmetry either explicit or….

In the end, death came uniformly to all, and all extracted as much satisfaction from their dying as this essentially graceless process could afford..

If religions are diseases of the human psyche, as the philosopher Grintholde asserts, then religious wars must be reckoned the resultant sores and ca….

The inscrutability [of economics] is perhaps not unintentional. It gives endless employment to dialecticians who otherwise might become public charg….

But Roy Rockwood, it was science fiction for the sake of science fiction..

The void is a mouth crying to be filled, a blank mind aching for thought, a cavity desperate for shape. What is not implies what is..

I don't read other science fiction. I don't read any at all..

But I've sure worked at jobs where I have been under inspection..

The less a writer discusses his work and himself the better. The master chef slaughters no chickens in the dining room; the doctor writes prescriptio….

Then there was Clark Ashton Smith, who wrote for Weird Tales and who had a wild imagination. He wasn't a very talented writer, but his imagination wa….

I categorically declare first my absolute innocence, second my lack of criminal intent, and third my effusive apologies..

While we are alive we should sit among colored lights and taste good wines, and discuss our adventures in far places; when we are dead, the opportuni….

What is an evil man? The man is evil who coerces obedience to his private ends, destroys beauty, produces pain, extinguishes life..

Beauty compelled admiration and erotic yearning; such was its organic function. But never by itself could it command love..

Count me not your friend but the enemy of your enemies..

A barbarian is not aware that he is a barbarian..

Good music always defeats bad luck.

In fact, almost every job you get somebody watching you..