If there was anything that depressed him more than his own cynicism, it was that quite often it still wasn't as cynical as real life.

Do you not know that a man is not dead while his name is still spoken?

Drinks like this tend to get called Traffic Lights or Rainbow's Revenge or, in places where truth is more highly valued, Hello and Good-Bye, Mr. Brain Cell.

When you break rules, break 'em good and hard

When I was a kid, I read the science-fiction shelves, and I read the fantasy shelves.

As far as I'm concerned, I'm a writer who's writing books, and therefore, I don't want to die. You'd miss the end of the book, wouldn't you? You can't die with an unfinished book.

Natural selection saw to it that professional heroes who at a crucial moment tended to ask themselves questions like 'What is my purpose in life?' very quickly lacked both.