“It didn´t occur to me until later that there´s another truth, very simple: greed in a good cause is still greed.”

“Kids, fiction is the truth inside the lie, and the truth of this fiction is simple enough: the magic exists.”

“He had never been a social man. He had shunned causes with contempt and disgust. They were for pig-simple suckers and people with too much time and money on their hands”

“Fiction is a lie. And GOOD fiction is the truth inside the lie.”

“As a young man just beginning to publish some short fiction in the t&a magazines, I was fairly optimistic about my chances of getting published; I knew that I had some game, as the basketball players say these days, and I also felt that time was on my side; sooner or later the best-selling writers of the sixties and seventies would either die or go senile, making room for newcomers like me.”

“Anything with the power to make you laugh over thirty years later isn’t a waste of time. I think something like that is very close to immortality.”

“Sooner or later everything you thought you'd left behind comes around again. For good or ill, it comes around again.”