Ponder just let it happen. It's because their minds are so often involved with deep and problematic matters, he told himself, that their mouths are allowed to wander around making a nuisance of themselves.

I see evil when I look in my shaving mirror. It is, philosophically, present everywhere in the universe in order, apparently, to highlight the existence of good. I think there is more to this theory, but I tend to burst out laughing at this point.

That's one form of magic, of course." "What, just knowing things?" "Knowing things that other people don't know.

Not all questions are answered, but fortunately some answers are questioned.

Inside every lump of coal there's a diamond waiting to get out.

One thing that writers have in common is that they are readers first. They have read lots and lots of stuff, because they're just infested with lots of stuff.

The significant owl hoots in the night.