The old sleep poorly. Perhaps they stand watch.

I hated school. I don't trust anybody who looks back on the years from 14 to 18 with any enjoyment. If you liked being a teenager, there's something really wrong with you.

Shall there be truth between us, as two men? Not as friends, but as enemies and equals?

Research can only present data about the past. No one seriously believes that people's answers to hypothetical questions about the future accurately represent their future behaviour; they merely represent a current attitude, which may or may not be translated into future behaviour.

Anything with the power to make you laugh over thirty years later isn’t a waste of time. I think something like that is very close to immortality.

When you write, you want to get rid of the world, don’t you? Of course you do. When you’re writing, you’re creating your own worlds.

All you imagined, no matter how wild it might seem, was no more than a disguised version of what you already knew.