I can't stand any music that requires its singers to be so dumb they wear their baseball caps backwards.

When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man I put away childish things because. wow, then I could afford much *better* childish things!

If the government ever imposes a tax on books - and I wouldn't put it past them - I'm in dead trouble.

They obeyed, as wise men do when a woman puts her foot down . . .

You're allowed to grant people into the darkness, but you must allow them to come out again.

It must be hard for humans, forever floundering through inconvenient geography. Humans are always lost. It's a basic characteristic. It explains a lot about them.

It was sad, like those businessmen who came to work in serious clothes but wore colorful ties in a mad, desperate attempt to show there was a free spirit in there somewhere.