There is a proverbial saying chiefly concerned with warning against too closely calculating the numerical value of un-hatched chicks.

The best way to show people true things is from a direction that they had not imagined the truth coming.

It seems like every time I agree to work with a video game company they go out of business. I stopped because I was starting to feel guilty.

There are new gods growing in America, clinging to growing knots of belief: gods of credit card and freeway, of Internet and telephone, of radio and hospital and television, gods of plastic and of beeper and of neon. Proud gods, fat and foolish creatures, puffed up with their own newness and importance. "They are aware of us, they fear us, and they hate us," said Odin. "You are fooling yourselves if you believe otherwise.

Belinda stared into the fire for some time, thinking about what she had in her life, and what she had given up; and whether it would be worse to love someone who was no longer there, or not to love someone who was.

I'm going to go home. Everything is going to be normal again. Boring again. Wonderful again.

Now you people have names. That's because you don't know who you are. We know who we are, so we don't need names.