Anything you don't understand is dangerous until you do understand it.

I've got five or six unpublished stories kicking around looking for somebody to buy them.

Half of wisdom is learning what to unlearn.

I never got good at predicting what millions of people will suddenly decide is rational.

I'd repair our education system or replace it with something that works.

Everything starts as somebody's daydream.

There is a technical, literary term for those who mistake the opinions and beliefs of characters in a novel for those of the author. The term is 'idiot'.