I should mention, by the way, that LVR stands for Luminal Velocity Regulator. I suppose it could also stand for Large Venezeulan Rats, but in this case it does not.

You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him participate in synchronized diving.

The great William Shakespeare said, "What's in a name?" He also said, "Call me Billy one more time and I will stab you with this ink quill.

You see, unlike most writers today, I do not use a computer. I write the old-fashioned way: on the walls of caves.

Captain Jibby looked at the door, clenched his teeth, and worked his face into a scowl so fierce you would think the door had insulted his mother - which, for the record, it had not.

On the forest floor was the LVR's smoldering ceiling panel, just lying there like the lid of a sardine can that had been eagerly and violently thrown away by someone who very much liked sardines.

A word to the wise is infuriating.

I don't eat friggin' lobster or anything like that. Because they're alive when you kill it.

-Money? in a voice that rustled.

Your power as a woman, as a mother, is your medicine, and it saved you. Take your courage in that.

I don't like the word 'superstar'. It has ridiculous implications. These words - star, stupor, superstar, stupid star - they're misleading. It's a myth.

As Oscar Wilde should have said, when bad ideas have nowhere else to go, they emigrate to America and become university courses.

Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but left to its own course it ends in power's disappearance.

Nobody is born as a teacher and only a few die as a teacher!

As soon as you start mixing up politics and some sort of ethical code in music, you've got it all wrong.

If you haven't got it, you can't show it. If you have got it, you can't hide it.