The amazing miracle of death, when one second you're walking and talking, and the next second you're an object.

After you hear even the shortest great story, it should fill you with a little bit of fear.

When deep space exploration ramps up, it'll be the corporations that name everything, the IBM Stellar Sphere, the Microsoft Galaxy, Planet Starbucks.

If you're going to read this, don't bother.

I'm not really into comfort books. There are too many of those as it is. Just sort of narcotic books, like my grandmother used to read. They have value like Paxil has value, but there's plenty of them in the world already. There's a shortage of confronting, stimulating, exciting books.

Could you hold the chainsaw a bit closer to your mouth, please?

It's not enough to be numbered with the grains of sand on the beach and the stars in the sky.