I'll have that someday, thought Peter. Someone who'll kiss me good-bye at the door. Or maybe just someone to put a blindfold over my head before they shoot me. Depending on how things turn out.

I don't believe that there are aliens. I believe there are really different people.

In order to learn, one must change one's mind.

A broken clock is right two times a day.

I am a creature of chemicals.

I learned to separate the story from the writing, probably the most important thing that any storyteller has to learn-that there are a thousand right ways to tell a story, and ten million wrong ones, and you're a lot more likely to find one of the latter than the former your first time through the tale.

The lies we live will always be confessed in the stories that we tell.