From the time I was little, I'd been kind of freaked out by the whole deal with large groups of people. And even moderate - sized groups of people. It's always made me very uncomfortable. It's such a strange phenomenon, what happens to people when they're all moving in the same direction, all chanting the same tune, the same line of slogans or something. That stuff always seems very alien and bizarre to me, and kind of scary.

Only a lunatic would want to be president. These lunatics are created deliberately by those who wish to be presided over.

Pretty things will swarm you like that, like your heart was a hive of electric bees.

But the animation has become very good, and I think that a movie is not a book, and a book is not a movie.

Giving Papa time to think, as Arty put it, was like pumping random rounds into a fireworks factory. The odds favored dramatic results.

I think genetic research is a fascinating and fertile area.

Women who pay their own rent don't have to be nice.