A writer does not own words any more than a painter owns colors. So lets dispense with this originality fetish… Look, listen and transcribe and forget about being original.

The world wasn't a more tolerant place when I was a young man. Rather, they simply sidestepped all the issues.

Love? What is it? Most natural painkiller what there is.

By the flaws in the picture the truth will emerge.

Happinessis a byproduct of function. Those who seek happiness for itself seek victory without war.

Changes... can only be effected by alterations in the original. The only thing not prerecorded in a prerecorded universe are the prerecordings themselves. The copies can only repeat themselves word for word. A virus is a copy. You can pretty it up, cut it up, scramble it - it will reassemble in the same form.

Like all pure creatures, cats are practical.