Digression is the soul of wit. Take the philosophic asides away from Dante, Milton or Hamlet's father's ghost and what stays is dry bones.

For it is a mad world and it will get madder if we allow the minorities, be they dwarf or giant, orangutan or dolphin, nuclear-head or water-conversationalist,…

Anything you dream is fiction, and anything you accomplish is science, the whole history of mankind is nothing but science fiction.

Only six months ago, I discovered that, over the years, some cubby-hole editors at Ballantine Books, fearful of contaminating the young, had, bit by bit, censo…

Writing, madam, is a mechanic part of wit. A gentleman should never go beyond a song or a billet.

I want the reader to feel something is astonishing. Not the 'what happens,' but the way everything happens. These long short story fictions do that best, for m…

We have such a mixture now, such a fusion of different genres.