I do believe in God. I think God has given so much power to people, and intelligence, and said, 'Well, you are on your own. Maybe I'm tired, I need a nap. You are mature. Why don't you look after yourselves?' And I think He's been sleeping too much.

... "You may not see the ocean, but right now we are in the middle of the ocean, and we have to keep swimming.

If you had an essentially happy childhood, that tends to dwell with you.

In order to go on with our lives, we are always capable of making the ominous into the merely strange.

The hardest thing was learning to write. I was 13, and the only writing I had done was for Social Studies. It consisted of copying passages right out of the encyclopedia

When I select a topic, it's usually a commitment of two to three years of my life

The only real nation is humanity