There is no good reason good can't triumph over evil, if only angels will get organized along the lines of the mafia.

What made marriage so difficult back then was yet again that instigator of so many other sorts of heartbreak: the oversize brain.

I am simply impressed by the unexpected insights which shower down on me when my job is to imagine, as contrasted with the woodenly familiar ideas which clutter my desk when my job is to tell the truth.

If people insist on living as if there's no tomorrow, there really won't be one.

I've got at least one tiny corner of the universe I can make just the way I want it.

People who are wary of what they might find in a book if they opened one are right to be.

Jokes can be noble. Laughs are exactly as honorable as tears. Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion, to the futility of thinking and striving anymore. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward - and since I can start thinking and striving again that much sooner.