Deep in the fundamental heart of mind and Universe there is a reason.

Let the past hold on to itself and let the present move forward into the future.

If I want to read something that's really giving me something serious and fundamental to think about, about the human condition, if you like, or what we're all doing here, or what's going on, then I'd rather read something by a scientist in the life sciences, like Richard Dawkins, for instance.

One always overcompensates for disabilities. I'm thinking of having my entire body surgically removed.

In the old days, writers used to sit in front of a typewriter and stare out of the window. Nowadays, because of the marvels of convergent technology, the thing you type on and the window you stare out of are now the same thing.

"I think we have different value systems." "Well, mine's better."

Why should I want to make anything up? Life's bad enough as it is without wanting to invent any more of it.