Ignorance can't be pardoned. Only cured..

Who could not return from a visit to Jack Vance's world, without feeling that he had been somewhere unique, that he had experienced things unavailabl….

Aristocrats might shrug, but commoners, dreading any collapse of the social order, wanted the rules of behavior to be observed..

Living, we fret. Dying, we live. I’ll keep that in mind. I’ll be of good cheer..

Three Rules for Literary Success: 1. Read a lot. 2. Write a lot. 3. Read a lot more, write a lot more..

There are true unseen forces, but not nearly so many as we believe, nor would they rule us so sternly if we did not admit them to our souls. We would….

To devote oneself to vigilance when the enemy is an imaginary one is idle, and to congratulate oneself for looking long and well for a foe that is no….

I hate no one, sir. It seems a waste of emotional energy..

Men of great spirit are at high risk at a time when small souls rule the world..

It has been suggested that Tiptree is female, a theory that I find absurd, for there is to me something ineluctably masculine about Tiptree’s writing….

My temperament is not inclined toward more self-promotion than is absolutely necessary for my professional well-being..

Stale is stale and borrowed is borrowed, no matter how original your models may have been..

It was like that all the time, in those years: an endless trip, a gaudy voyage. But powers decay. Time leaches the colors from the best of visions. T….

Autobiography. Apparently one should not name the names of those one has been to bed with, or give explicit figures on the amount of money one has ea….

Thus does the unyielding, inescapable future ineluctably devour the present..

I find the world and all it contains extremely fascinating. Is this sinful?.

Having lost our present and our future, we had of necessity to bend all our endeavors to the past, which no one could take from us if only we were vi….

The denizens of Citizens Service Houses are not, as a rule, gifted with a lot of common sense, but they often make up for that by being extremely arg….

Utopias are boring. Distopias on the other hand, are interesting..

Unacceptable, maybe. But not unthinkable. Nothing's unthinkable once somebody's thought it..

When you know that something is dying inside you, you learn not to put much trust in the random vitalities of the fleeting moment..