"My aunt could never understand how writing could be a full-time job. She'd keep asking when I'd get a real job!."

-- Ken Spillman

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“...I feel as though I made a face and the wind changed, and now I have to go through life grimacing in this horrible way.”
“Very little in science fiction can transcend the gimmickry of a technical conceit, yet without that conceit at its heart a book is not truly science fiction. Furthermore, so little emerging thought and technology is employed by sf writers today that the genre is lagging far behind reality both in the cosmology area and the technology area: sf is no longer a place to experiment, but is now very derivative.”
“I wanted to write a book that imagined where advances in the study of genetics might lead us. Holman was the first character who came to me: I envisaged the misshapen offspring of beautiful, wealthy parents. Then I realised that he bore a striking resemblance to Toulouse-Lautrec. I developed that, made Holman an alcoholic who lives among hookers, an artist tortured by his disability.”
“Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above: For love is heaven, and heaven is love.”
“Everybody knows how awful the world is and each person distorts it in a certain way that enables him to get through. Some people distort it with religious things, others with sports, money, love, art, and they all have their own nonsense about what makes it meaningful, and all but nothing makes it meaningful. These things definitely serve a certain function, but in the end they all fail to give life meaning and everyone goes to his grave in a meaningless way.”
“There was once a merchant who was so rich that he might have paved the whole street, and a little alley besides, with silver money. But he didn't do it--he knew better how to use his money than that.”
“Trust in the inexhaustible character of the murmur.”
“Funboy: Pal, something is seriously wrong with you. The Crow: Atrocity has that effect on me.”

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