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.

You can't treat royalty like people with normal perverted desires.

A genuine love of learning is one of the two delinquencies which cause blindness and lead a young man to ruin.

I've seldom minded other people's opinions, but the other side of that coin is that I've seldom been interested by them, um their opinions about me I mean.

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

Sometimes people are so close to the material, they miss an important cross-reference. You can't drop this line because half an hour later, it affects that line. And the writer is the person who knows that immediately.

It is better of course to know useless things than to know nothing.