Glenn used to say the reason you can't really imagine yourself being dead was that as soon as you say, 'I'll be dead,' you've said the word I, and so you're still alive inside the sentence. And that's how people got the idea of the immortality of the soul - it was a consequence of grammar.

There would be no Sherlock Holmes if it were not for serial publication.

But some people can't tell where it hurts. They can't calm down. They can't ever stop howling.

I'll make you mine, lovers said in old books. They never said, I'll make you me.

Everybody acts as if they have free will. They act as if they can make these decisions; do they know they don't? I think there's been some back-down on the idea that everything is determined.

We do not know how we'd behave. But a lot of people facing fascism didn't become fascists. I don't happen to believe that we are all monsters.

How easy it is, treachery. You just slide into it.