When a knot gets to tight, you can always cut the rope

If you write with passion in your own style, you will make a place for yourself

In our age, self-indulgence and self-destruction, rather than self-sacrifice, are the foundations for new heroic myths.

...in an infinite universe, anything that could be imagined might somewhere exist.

We need to laugh at the irrationality of evil, for in doing so we deny evil's power over us, diminish its influence in the world, and tarnish the allure it has for some people.

We are coming out of a century that was taught that one way of looking at the world, that one form of behavior, is as valid as another. The idea of true evil has been blown away.

Then what are you? An electronic Hannibal Lector? You can't eat my liver with fava beans through a modem, you know.