You think you have the amount of money that is your credit limit. We're just wired to think that, you know? Until the bill arrives - a sobering moment - you think you're richer than you are.

I have been known to buy e-versions of my books because I was in a hotel room and I needed one right away to look up something in it; very handy for that - you can have it just the next minute; you can press the button and just have it.

Don't let the bastards grind you down. I repeat this to myself but it conveys nothing. You might as well say, Don't let there be air; or Don't be. I suppose you could say that.

Neither of us says the word love, not once. It would be tempting fate; it would be romance, bad luck.

If the national mental illness of the United States is megalomania, that of Canada is paranoid schizophrenia.

We are very short on organs, and the pig solution is probably a lot better than the human clone solution - though maybe not for the pigs.

By telling you anything at all I'm at least believing in you, I believe you're there, I believe you into being.