What's the point of having a library full of books you've already read?

The major networks, the cable networks, they're being prosecutors. They're judges and jurors and executioners. Well, c'mon, that's ridiculous. But they're doing it.

If someone tells you to do something for money, tell them to go to hell.

I don’t write things to benefit the world. If it happens that they do, swell. I didn’t set out to do that. I set out to have a hell of a lot of fun.

Remember, the firemen are rarely necessary. The public itself stopped reading of its own accord.

From the outer edge of his life, looking back, there was only one remorse, and that was only that he wished to go on living.

I’m really alive! he thought. I never knew it before, or if I did I don’t remember!