Life happens too fast for you ever to think about it. If you could just persuade people of this, but they insist on amassing information.

Literature is by definition opinionated. It is bound to provoke the arguments in many quarters, not excluding the hometown or even the family of the author.

He ate a pear. It was a hard one. It fought back against his grinding teeth. It snapped in juicy protest.

If I were a physics teacher or a science teacher, it'd be on my mind all the time as how the hell we really got this way. It's a perfectly natural human thought and, okay, if you go into the science class you can't think this. Well, alright, as soon as you leave you can start thinking about it again without giving aid and comfort to the lunatic fringe of the Christian religion.

All the great story lines are great practical jokes that people fall for over and over again.

I've been drawing all my life, just as a hobby, without really having shows or anything. It's just an agreeable thing to do, and I recommend it to everybody.

I had taught myself that a human being might as well look for diamond tiaras in the gutter as for rewards and punishments that were fair.