The cat wrinkled its nose and managed to look unimpressed. "Calling cats," it confided, "tends to be a rather overrated activity. Might as well call a whirlwind.

And there never was an apple, in Adam's opinion, that wasn't worth the trouble you got into for eating it.

There are three things, and three things only, that can lift the pain of mortality and ease the ravages of life. These are wine, women and song.

So the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund is out there preserving and fighting for, and sometimes winning and sometimes losing, the fight for First Amendment rights in comics and, more generally, for freedom of speech.

Rock and roll stars have it much better than writers when they're on a tour.

I think I’ll dismember the world and then I’ll dance in the wreckage.

I have a feeling,’ he said, ‘I have a feeling that we were meant to be together. That we have fought the good fight, side by side, in the past or in the future, I do not know. I am a rational man, but I have learned the value of a good companion, and from the moment I clapped eyes on you, I knew I trusted you as well as I do myself. Yes, I want you with me.