Sometimes I think it is a great mistake to have matter that can think and feel. It complains so.

I was once asked if I had any ideas for a really scary reality TV show. I have one reality show that would really make your hair stand on end: "C-Students from Yale".

He didn't look like a soldier at all. He looked like a filthy flamingo.

Tiger got to hunt, bird got to fly; Man got to sit and wonder 'why, why, why?' Tiger got to sleep, bird got to land; Man got to tell himself he understand.

If this isn't nice, I don't know what is.

Talent is extremely common. What is rare is the willingness to endure the life of the writer.

Thinking doesn't seem to help very much. The human brain is too high-powered to have many practical uses in this particular universe.