The unpredictable and the predetermined unfold together to make everything the way it is.

I don't write at the library, because I smoke when I work or would like the possibility of a smoke. Also, I need to be at my own desk.

Audiences know what to expect, and that is all that they are prepared to believe in.

No matter how imperfect things are, if you've got a free press everything is correctable, and without it everything is concealable.

We're better at predicting events at the edge of the galaxy or inside the nucleus of an atom than whether it'll rain on auntie's garden party three Sundays from now.

Each move is dictated by the previous one--that is the meaning of order

Atheism is a crutch for those who cannot bear the reality of God.