Marriage is an honorable estate and should not be used simply as an excuse for legal intercourse.

Ordinary adults don't like children to speak of things that are denied them by their own gray minds.

Do I have to talk to insane people?" "You're a librarian now. I'm afraid it's mandatory.

The barriers between reality and fiction are softer than we think; a bit like a frozen lake. Hundreds of people can walk across it, but then one evening a thin spot develops and someone falls through; the hole is frozen over by the following morning.

The Goliath Corporation was to altruism what Genghis Khan was to soft furnishings.

If it weren't for greed, intolerance, hate, passion and murder, you would have no works of art, no great buildings, no medical science, no Mozart, no Van Gough, no Muppets and no Louis Armstrong.

Death, I had discovered long ago, was available in varying flavors, and none of them particularly palatable.