Why could you not have left me as I was, in the sea of being?" "Because the world has need of your humility, your piety, your great teaching and your….

Thus did I bear Sir Lancelot de Lac to the Keep of Ganleon, whom I trusted like a brother. That is to say, not at all..

My favorite form is the short story. From an aesthetics stand point you really have to pare down to the bone. You can't write a throw-away scene..

I see myself as a novelist, period. I mean, the material I work with is what is classified as science fiction and fantasy, and I really don't think a….

Even the most heartening of philosophical vistas is no match for, say, a toothache, if it happens to be your own..

I watched the spinning stars, grateful, sad and proud, as only a man who has outlived his destiny and realizes he might yet forge himself another, ca….

I fail to see what difference it makes whether it be supernatural or not--so long as it is malefic, possesses great powers and life span and has the ….

Nobody steals books but your friends..

At the end of the season of sorrows comes the time of rejoicing. Spring, like a well-oiled clock, noiselessly indicates this time..

The day of battle dawned pink as the fresh-bitten thigh of a maiden..

Of all the things a man may do, sleep probably contributes most to keeping him sane. It puts brackets about each day. If you do something foolish or ….

The dead are too much with us..

Nick swore he'd die with this boots on, on some exotic safari, but he found his Kilimanjaro in a hospital on Earth, where they'd cured everything tha….

I would never rest until I held vengeance and the throne within my hand, and good night sweet prince to anybody who stood between me and these things..

'Fire' does not matter, 'earth' and 'air' and 'water' do not matter. 'I' do not matter. No word matters. But man forgets reality and remembers words.….

It would be nice if there were some one thing constant and unchanging in the universe. If there is such a thing, then it is a thing which would have ….

Don't wake me for the end of the world unless it has very good special effects..

I don't know that I ever wanted greatness, on its own. It seems rather like wanting to be an engineer, rather than wanting to design something--or wa….

Death and Light are everywhere, always, and they begin, end, strive, attend, into and upon the Dream of the Nameless that is the world, burning words….

Death is mighty, and is no one's friend..

The power to hurt ... has evolved in a direct relationship to technological advancement..