I fall down on the side of free will, simply because if you look at where I came from, and what I was able to do in my life, what was able to happen.

Once you have had a wonderful dog, a life without one, is a life diminished.

Six billion of us walking the planet, six billion smaller worlds on the bigger one. Shoe salesmen and short-order cooks who look boring from the outside - some have weirder lives than you. Six billion stories, every one an epic, full of tragedy and triumph, good and evil, despair and hope. You and me - we aren't so special, bro.

I've had good publishers and bad publishers, and you've got to learn when the advice is sensible and when it's not.

Maybe I'm needy, neurotic, paranoid. Under the circumstances, of course, if I weren't needy, neurotic, and paranoid, I'd obviously be psychotic.

The functions of intellect are insufficient without courage, love, friendship, compassion and empathy.

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