Look at Satan. Created as an angel, grows up to be the Great Adversary. Hey, if you’re going to go on about genetics, you might as well say the kid will grow up to be an angel. After all, his father was really big in Heaven in the old days. Saying he’ll grow up to be a demon just because his dad became one is like saying a mouse with its tail cut off will give birth to tailless mice. No. Upbringing is everything. Take it from me.

Here's what I suggest," he said. "You pretend that rats can think, and I'll promise to pretend that humans can think, too.

Susan says, don't get afraid, get angry.

Rumour is information distilled so finely that it can filter through anything. It does not need doors and windows -- sometimes it does not need people. It can exist free and wild, running from ear to ear without ever touching lips.

I would advise budding writers some other kind of job, unless they think they're very, very lucky.

It's not worth doing something unless you were doing something that someone, somewere, would much rather you weren't doing.

Death: Human beings make life so interesting. Do you know, that in a universe so full of wonders, they have managed to invent boredom.