"I never write Metropolis for seven cents..." - Quote by Mark Twain

“No one can write perfect English and keep it up through a stretch of ten chapters. It has never been done.”

“How lucky Adam was. He knew when he said a good thing, nobody had said it before.”

“There are German songs which can make a stranger to the language cry.”

“The art of art, the glory of expression, is simplicity. Nothing is better than simplicity, and the sunlight of letters is simplicity. Nothing is better than simplicity-nothing can make up for excess, or for the lack of definiteness.”

“Here is the piece. If you can't say fornicate can you say copulate or if not that can you say co-habit? If not that would have to say consummate I suppose. Use your own good taste and judgment.”

“I wish you a wrestling match with your Creative Muse that will last a lifetime. ... I wish craziness and foolishness and madness upon you. May you live with hysteria, and out of it make fine stories - science fiction or otherwise. Which finally means, may you be in love every day for the next 20,000 days. And out of that love, remake a world.”

“Only that which does not teach, which does not cry out, which does not condescend, which does not explain, is irresistible.”

“The highest art is no art. The best form is no form.”

“When wisdom and knowledge appear, great pretense arises.”