I still feel threatened by academics, but my books have a lot of academic in-jokes and everybody assumes I went to university and studied English.

...the landscape inside Lord of the Rings was so stunning and so stupendous that it could be absorbed as a form of nourishment.

Literary detection and firearms don't really go hand in hand; pen mighter than the sword and so forth.

The universe always moves from an ordered state to a disordered one; that a glass may fall to the ground and shatter yet you never see a broken glass reassemble itself and then jump back on the table.

I'll tell you what love is" I said, "It is blind devotion, unquestioning self humiliation, utter submission, trust and belief against yourself and against the whole world, giving up your heart and soul to the smiter.

I shouldn't believe anything I say, if I were you-and that includes what I just told you.

Without unscrambled eggs, there was no time travel, no more depredation of the Now, and we could look to a brighter future of long-term thought--and more reading.