When I started out in the early 1930s, there were a great many magazines that published short stories. Unfortunately, the short-story market has dwin….

The old Lena is dead..

What cannot be imagined cannot even be talked about..

Music gave me something to do in my life..

How can I govern others, who can't even govern myself?.

Eat right and you can’t go wrong..

I don't like overt traditionalism..

I love seeing things that work in the micro and work in the macro..

The worse they are the more they see beauty in each other..

Let us be French as the Americans are English..

The less seriously you take yourself, the better work you're going to do..

I realized that everything important in sci-fi showed up in the magazines first. It's the proving ground for new writers and new ideas..

Mom flipped through the magazines like the pages needed to be slapped..

I don't really like ska..

Education isn't something you can finish.

Just being from New York, that's something that you do - knowing how to dress..

I like things to reverberate, to be suggestive..

I'm not just another bimbo..

The whites are the same everywhere. I see them every day..

There are no rules. Let the picture lead you where it must go..

However, I began to submit poems to British magazines, and some were accepted. It was a great moment to see my first poems published. It felt like en….