I speak for all mediocrities in the world. I am their champion. I am their patron saint.

What use, after all, is man, if not to teach God His lessons?

It is very, very difficult for a playwright to write a scene in which a young man has his first deep experience of sex with a girl whom he found immensely attractive, is fully satisfied by this event and gets up and blinds a lot of horses.

Passion, you see, can be destroyed by a doctor. It cannot be created.

Librarians as a race tend to be tedious.

And in fact, I think one of the best guides to telling you who you are, and I think children use it all the time for this purpose, is fantasy.

The trouble is if you don’t spend your life yourself, other people spend it for you.