“Not many people can boast a photo of their grandmother posing for kiddiporn.”

“Out of the frying pan into the fire! What is marriage but prostitution to one man instead of many? No different!”

“He was a lovely man in many ways. But he kept on insisting on forgiving me when there was nothing to forgive.”

“People talk about mainstream fiction and sf as though they were two quite different kinds of writing, and fantasy as well, as though it was quite different. But I think this a false distinction, that it is a labelling that helps librarians, and people who know the kind of thing they like and don't want their prejudices to be disturbed.”

“Some cities are women and must be loved; others are men and can only be admired or bargained with”

“His main principles were indeed as follows: everything it is possible to imagine can also exist.”

“Before he can become a wolf, the lycanthrope strips naked. If you spy a naked man among the pines, you must run as if the Devil were after you.”