Personally I have a great deal of fun doing it, which is an inspiration in itself really. It really allows me to daydream, as in "schooldream" which is daydreaming with ink and get paid for it which is something I don't say to schools when I go in and talk to them.

You have many fine qualities that I admire. But you are out of time. You should have been born a century ago, when values such as yours meant something.

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

For a taste that's a bit more distinct, eat a bird before it's extinct.

What’s the opposite of déjà vu, when you see something that hasn’t happened yet?” “I don’t know—avant verrais?

You see? I know where every single book used to be in the library. She pointed to the shelf opposite. Over there was Catch-22, which was a hugely popular fishing book and one of a series, I believe.

Individual words, sounds, squiggles on paper with no meanings other than those with which our imagination can clothe them.