If God treats you well by teaching you a disastrous lesson, you never forget it.

Digression is the soul of wit. Take the philosophic asides away from Dante, Milton or Hamlet's father's ghost and what stays is dry bones.

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.

Edgar Allen Poe really started me when I was 8. I fell in love with everything of his.

That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you.

Memory is an illusion, nothing more. It is a fire that needs constant tending.

Mars is empty now. Five hundred years from now, it'll be full of people.