Comedy was one of those genres that while appearing quite jolly was actually highly dangerous.

For every expert there is an equal and opposite expert.

the Real-World was a sprawling mess of a book in need of a good editor.

Vanity's contribution to Fiction in general was an abundance of cheap labour and the occasional blockbuster, which was accepted into Fiction with an apologetic 'gosh, don't know how that happened'.

I'm sure it's not all hot buttered crumpets out there in the breathing world of asphalt and heartbeats.

What is without dispute...is that the readers need [the BookWorld] just as much as we need them—to bring order to their apparent chaos, if nothing else.

As we drove, I imagined we were standing still and the world was coming toward us.

When you don't see nothing wrong in anything you do, then you are doing everything wrong.

Men who have nothing to lose never give a thought for eternal life.

Death is the handmaiden of the pilot. Sometimes it comes by accident, sometimes by an act of God.

You can't cooperate by knocking something about or bossing it or forcing it to do things.

The true nature of the gods is that of magical images shaped out of the astral plane by mankind's thought, and influenced by the mind.

What I believe is not what I say I believe; what I believe is what I do.

Never let anyone steal your joy.

I wish I could play like Roger Federer.

Listen to many, speak to a few.