I can have oodles of charm when I want to.
Humor is an almost physiological response to fear.
I think that novels that leave out technology misrepresent life as badly as Victorians misrepresented life by leaving out sex.
Here is a lesson in creative writing. First rule: Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. All they do is show you've been to college.
Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
I really wonder what gives us the right to wreck this poor planet of ours.
Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae.
Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before... He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way.
Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter can be said to remedy anything.
We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.