There's a lot of people who don't understand the circle crops in England. Pure enigma.

We think we’re in the present, but we aren't. The present we know is only a movie of the past.

All that five thousand kids lived in those five thousand houses, owned by guys that got off the train. The houses looked so much alike that, time and time again, the kids went home by mistake to different houses and different families. Nobody ever noticed.

The answer is never the answer. What's really interesting is the mystery.

The answer is never the answer. What's really interesting is the mystery. If you seek the mystery instead of the answer, you'll always be seeking. I've never seen anybody really find the answer, but they think they have. So they stop thinking. But the job is to seek mystery, evoke mystery, plant a garden in which strange plants grow and mysteries bloom. The need for mystery is greater than the need for an answer.

The job of the writer is to kiss no ass, no matter how big and holy and white and tempting and powerful.

It is bad to suppress laughter. It goes back down to your hips. Man, when you lose your laugh you lose your footing.