In the middle of Siberia I guess there's a lake that big [ like the Great Lakes], but there are practically no other lakes that big with fresh water.

Unhappy failures need not apply.

The reason we write fiction is because it's so much easier to exist spending part of each day in an imaginary world.

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

I was a student in the Department of Anthropology. At that time, they were teaching that there was absolutely no difference between anybody. They may be teaching that still.

A committee of three can accomplish much if two don't show up.

The function of the artist is to make people like life better than they have before.