Consider the black widow spider. It's a timid little beastie, useful and, for my taste, the prettiest of the arachnids, with its shiny, patent-leather finish and its red hourglass trademark. But the poor thing has the fatal misfortune of possessing enormously too much power for its size. So everybody kills it on sight.

Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.

The whole principle (censorship) is wrong; it's like demanding that grown men live on skim milk because the baby can't eat steak.

I took up writing because I needed money. And I continued to write because it's safer than stealing and easier than working.

Ignorance is curable, stupid is forever.

They didn't want it good, they wanted it Wednesday.

Age does not bring wisdom... but it does give perspective... and the saddest sight of all is to see, far behind you, temptations you've resisted.