Quotes from James Nicoll

The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.

Never bring a gun to a fight where the other guy has a time-machine and tomorrow's newspapers.

After enough concussions the head injuries blur together.

"Gun-wielding recluse gunned down by local police" isn't the epitaph I want. I am hoping for "Witnesses reported the sound up to two hundred kilometers away" or "Last body part finally located".

My grandfather for example only died twice, once during the war and once in the 1980s.

Ben Bova seems to work very hard at working in new discoveries into his Glum Future but alas, his future is glum and not that well written.

I believe that I have now experienced the lifetime maximum exposure to bottom spanking in fantasy novels.

My father once discovered that one cannot "walk off" gangrene.