Education is one thing and instruction, however worthy, necessary and incidentally or monetarily educative, another..

With some exceptions in science fiction and other genres I have small difficulty in avoiding anything that could be called American literature. I fee….

Work was like cats were supposed to be: if you disliked and feared it and tried to keep out if its way, it knew at once and sought you out and jumped….

Death has this much to be said for it: You don't have to get out of bed for it. Wherever you happen to be They bring it to you—free..

Twentieth century music is like paedophilia. No matter how persuasively and persistently its champions urge their cause, it will never be accepted by….

When starting to think about any novel, part of the motive is: I'm going to show them, this time..

A German wine label is one of the things life's too short for, a daunting testimony to that peculiar nation's love of detail and organization..

When that ineffable compound of depression, sadness (these two are not the same), anxiety, self-hatred, sense of failure and fear for the future begi….

Man's love is of man's life a thing apart;Girls aren't like that..

It's a letdown if the comedian doesn't finally actually really sit on his hat..

One of the great benefits of organised religion is that you can be forgiven your sins, which must be a wonderful thing. I mean, I carry my sins aroun….

I wish I could have a little tape-and-loudspeaker arrangement sewn into the binding of this magazine, to be triggered off by the light reflected from….

I am always incorrigibly interested in the behaviour of the 'human animal', and look forward to perusing divers effusions of your lively pen..

Hangover cure: Rigorous sex, hydration, hot bath, then "go up for half an hour in an open aeroplane. (needless to say, with a non-hungover person at ….

[Science fiction is] that class of prose narrative treating of a situation that could not arise in the world we know, but which is hypothesised on th….

The world that seemed so various and new, well, it does contract. One's burning desire to investigate human behavior, and to make, or imply, statemen….

I'll pour you the first one and after that, if you don't have one, it's your own f****** fault. You know where it is..

When I find someone I respect writing about an edgy, nervous wine that dithered in the glass, I cringe. When I hear someone I don't respect talking a….

It's never pleasant to have one's unquestioning beliefs put in their historical context, as I know from experience, I can assure you..

Self criticism must be my guide to action, and the first rule for its employment is that in itself it is not a virtue, only a procedure..

Outside every fat man there is an even fatter man trying to close in..