Never pass by a chance to shut up..

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….

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

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

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

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….

Ignorance can't be pardoned. Only cured..

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….

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

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….

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

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

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

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….

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

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….

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..

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

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

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….