If God were alive today, He'd be an atheist.

The thing my father was proudest of was the Ayres clock at the intersection of Washington Street and Meridian. That made him so happy. Ayres complained because he wouldn't send them a bill. There was stuff my family had done there - particularly my father and grandfather - that was quite permanent and wonderful.

The moral of the story is we're here on Earth to fart around. And, of course, the computers will do us out of that. And, what the computer people don't realize, or they don't care, is we're dancing animals. You know, we love to move around.

I have this disease late at night sometimes, involving alcohol and the telephone.

The artist makes his living by pretending, by putting it in a meaningful hole though no such holes exist.

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

New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become.