When it came to formal classes, I was a slacker. But I've always been a diligent autodidact and can teach myself virtually any subject if I have a serious interest in it.

Southerners have many fine qualities, charm and civility among them, and a sense of the tragic.

Humanity is a parade of fools, and I am at the front of it, twirling a baton.

If someone wrote it and it had a peculiar twist, I've read it.

If you have to pay the bills, and you write something you're not proud of, use a pen-name for that.

I need those nukes, the chief said. I need them, I need them right now. I don't want to be an enabler, sir. I'd rather get you into a twelve step program to help you break this addiction.

I'm either a mutant or a cripple, and I refuse to be a cripple. People pity cripples, but they're afraid of mutants [...] Fear implies respect.