I have always admired the work of Phil Farmer and was glad for the chance to work with him. Readers today may be too young to remember his classics like The Lovers.

Being terrified but going ahead and doing what must be done—that's courage. The one who feels no fear is a fool, and the one who lets fear rule him is a coward.

When one person makes an accusation, check to be sure he himself is not the guilty one. Sometimes it is those whose case is weak who make the most clamour.

When you steal from the library, you are preventing anyone else from reading that book, and the very notion makes me want to drop you in the Void.

One day you'll discover that the opinions of worthless people are worthless.

Happy children do not seem to grow up to be writers.

Information is power. --Humfrey

But one must go where one's road leads, even when it's a distressing road.

All things make sense; you just have to fathom how they make sense.

SF is the literature of the theoretically possible, and F is the literature of the impossible.

Obviously it could be, because it was.

I'm Blunt because God rolled me that way

When we first hear [a] word, we start putting these associational hooks into it that make it easier to fish it back out at some later date.

Someday, my young friend, you'll find out that girls are actually people too. Just like you and me.

The world has lost a legend, and I have lost a friend. Johnny Cash was the rare soul who could be both.

I am not the first person to give birth naturally. Billions of other women have come before me and have done this - so why can't I do it?

Man's condition is horrible because, no matter what form his happiness may take, it arises from some species of ignorance.

My favorite records are not easy - they're not records that reveal everything to you the first time out.

What is today but yesterday's tomorrow?

No rock and roll ensemble, however inspired, can deliver the kind of musical variety obtainable with the resources of 110 instruments.

Captaincy is 90 per cent luck and 10 per cent skill. But don't try it without that 10 per cent.