Hope is the great deceiver. Hope is the piper who leads us sleepy to our slaughter.

This world has only two kinds of people: villains and smiling villains.

...Many shadows hide behind light, and the best lies are those seasoned liberally with truth: salt covering the flavor of rotten meat.

Every act intends some good.

..More choices in a limited time didn't mean didn't mean you could do everything-it meant that you could do anything, so you probably did nothing, frozen with indecision.

Sometimes playing stupid opens your eyes to the truth.

If a man is not aware of the existence of the moon, what can the moon do for him except continue sending its lights upon him?

In order to be found, you have to be findable.

A writer is a controlled schizophrenic.

I don't mind playing somebody who's not likable, or makes the audience feel slightly conflicted.

books have been my greatest comfort, castle-building a never-failing delight, and scribbling a very profitable amusement.

I'm hosting a quiz show, but I never considered myself a game show host.

I like shelves full of books in a library, but if all books become electronic, the task of big research libraries remains the same - keep what's published in the form in which it appeared.

I clearly had one drink too many and I am deeply embarrassed about the things I said.

In foreign countries they fear baldness. They are so rich in foreign countries, they can afford to fear all kinds of silly things.