It's a hard life if you don't weaken.

I don't want to go to the heaven that I learned about when I was a kid. To me, it seems boring.

A lot of authority figures want to be good. I sense that, and yet at the same time I sense that authority, after a while, always leads to some kind of oppression. When the minority report comes in, what you do is run the minority out of town with a flaming cross. It's just the way things are.

A library card is good to have, you can never have too much ID.

Mister, we deal in lead.

Somebody asked Somerset Maugham about his place in the pantheon of writers, and he said, "I'm in the very front row of the second rate." I'm sort of haunted by that.

I’m so afraid that all I can reach will lead me to all I dare not see.