Quotes About Author

The words hit, a sucker punch that first inspired pain, then a powerful impulse to strike back.

Oh, I guess you wouldn't know, since you left the actual investigating for me to do. Well, buckle up, my friend, because I'm about to hand you actual clues to an actual crime, wrapped in a bow.

AT LAST, SIR TERRY, WE MUST WALK TOGETHER. Terry took Death's arm and followed him through the doors and on to the black dessert under the endless night. THE END.

Anthems in Eden

Please don't think that my actions have been an attempt to earn redemption, or that what I've told you is a plea for mercy. I deserve to die.

That was why I resolved to write my first drafts in longhand, slowest of the various means of committing thoughts to paper, before I started doing later drafts on the typewriter; that is why I still do my first few drafts in longhand today;

He could be as memorable an orator as his father, particularly when he was speaking on that topic that had captured his imagination;

In the twentieth century, nowhere on Earth was sex so vigorously suppressed as in America---and nowhere else was there such a deep interest in it.

Thou art God'. It's not a message of cheer and hope. It's a defiance - and an unafraid, unabashed assumption of personal responsibility.

As for logic and internal consistency, these mundane rules do not apply to sacred writings and never have...

Sovereign, like love, means anything you want it to mean; it's a word in dictionary between sober and sozzled.

Of all the strange "crimes" that human beings have legislated out of nothing, "blasphemy" is the most amazing—with "obscenity" and "indecent exposure" fighting it out for second and third place.

Never appeal to a man's better nature. He may not have one. Invoking his self-interest gives you more leverage.

His claim to Mars is lawyers' hogwash; as a lawyer myself I need not respect it.

Once upon a time there was a Martian named Valentine Michael Smith.

Private,' he said firmly. 'Family matter. Go have a drink.' 'Whose family?' 'A death in yours, if you insist.

Sit back down—and for God's sake quit trying to be as nasty as I am; you don't have my years of practice.

writing is a legal way of avoiding work without actually stealing and one that doesn't take any talent or training

Well, I'll stick to the Old Testament, picking it to pieces usually doesn't upset people quite so much.

Being kissed by Wyoming Knott is more definite than being married to most women.

Gratitude' is a euphemism for resentment. Resentment from most people I do not mind—but from pretty little girls it is distasteful to me.

There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized or even cured. The only solution known to science is to provide the patient with an isolation room, where he can endure the acute stages in private and where food can be poked in to him with a stick.

I hope he's just a scoundrel . . . because a saint can stir up ten times as much mischief as a scoundrel.

they would rather sneer at us and be smug, because we 'fail' to see what they are driving at. If indeed they are driving at anything--obscurity is usually the refuge of incompetence.