Life is just chemicals. A drop here, a drip there, everything's changed. A mere dribble of fermented juices and sudenlly you're going to live another few hours.

Nothing but dust and fundamentalists.

Sometimes words need music too. Sometimes the descriptions are not enough. Books should be written with soundtracks, like films.

The oldest fan letter I've had is from someone aged eighty-five.

When you read, I'm sure you don't realize that your eyes are going backwards and forwards and to this place and that place. Mine don't do that.

Some pirates achieved immortality by great deeds of cruelty or derring-do. Some achieved immortality by amassing great wealth. But the captain had long ago decided that he would, on the whole, prefer to achieve immortality by not dying.

I'm not cruel, sir, I won't shoot you in the guts, but I will make you realize how much you took your toes for granted.