peter young’s listopia

Once the writer in every individual comes to life (and that time is not far off), we are in for an age of universal deafness and lack of understanding.
— The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, 1979

On what it must be like to have Harlan Ellison as a friend: "I also don’t doubt that if he is your friend, you could call him to help you bury a body. He’d bitch about his aching back the whole time, but he’d still grab a shovel."