Why do we argue? Life's so fragile, a successful virus clinging to a speck of mud, suspended in endless nothing.

Never despair. Never surrender.

Look at him now, poor fellow. That's what a dose of reality does for you...Never touch the stuff myself, you understand. Find it gets in the way of the hallucinations.

My experience of life is that it is not divided up into genres; it’s a horrifying, romantic, tragic, comical, science-fiction cowboy detective novel. You know, with a bit of pornography if you're lucky.

I wouldn’t be the person I am today if it wasn’t for the opportunities the library gave me.

There is an inverse relationship between imagination and money.

Please! Don't all leave. Somebody has to do it, don't you see? Somebody has to save the world.