I enjoy writing, I enjoy my house, my family and, more than anything I enjoy the feeling of seeing each day used to the full to actually produce something. The end.

My parents have been married forty-two years. I wonder how many of those were happy.

With endless time, nothing is special. With no loss or sacrifice, we can’t appreciate what we have

Science is the desperate effort to catch up with the 13.8 billion year-old facts (give or take an eon or two).

A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.

Recognize the possibility of the divine in any given moment.

Vast, colossal destiny, which raises man to fame, though it may also grind him to powder!

Knowing the plumbing of the universe, intricate and awe-inspiring though that plumbing might be, is a far cry from discovering its purpose.

Nothing is easier than to give Christian asceticism a Socialist tinge.

I'm surprised and disappointed in American culture.

I think with one exception I've never changed an opening sentence after a book was completed.

You write music for yourself and if you just open that door and let people in, the audience is going to grow and it's going to become more accessible.