I was an infinitely hot and dense dot.

Yo! You’re my dope dealer not my thesis adviser. If I wanted your opinion about my dissertation, I’d have asked for it, Motherfucker!

“Et Tu, Babe” was born out of my absolute certainty that a writer’s life was solitary and insular, and I was happy with that. I love reading and writing, it’s my whole life.

Sometimes I think my purpose is as a saboteur when I'm working with other people, derailing what they're trying to do or taking things to a ludicrous extremity.

One of the things that struck me as unique about Hollywood is that I never had bad meetings. There were all enthusiastic, but meaninglessly enthusiastic.

I think to simply make fun of something isn't particularly interesting. I try to not just do a parody of something or belittle something or disparage something.

The interesting thing about something in the back of your mind is that it can travel pretty far back in your mind.

It's in great joy that we grasp truth.

I can tell from about 20 yards away when someone has a manuscript for me. I can just tell - they have that look.

I think of memory as a game, that is as something one engages in with a very profound kind of "playfulness."

My relationship with my readers is somewhat theatrical. One of the main things I try to do in my work is delight my readers.

Leaving the world behind is the best experience most feeble minds fear to try.

The Paradox of Sustenance: For an organism’s life to be continued

Perhaps people who don't value other people's time are actually reflecting a misunderstanding they have themselves

It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.

When you are a professional sportsman all the guys are great competitors in the top 50.

We could live offa the fatta the lan'.

Dad is my best mate and I can tell Mum absolutely anything. I really appreciate Mum and Dad. Why are we so close? Young parents, I think. The rock business keeps their minds young.

Athenodorus says hydrophobia, or water-dread, was first discovered in the time of Asclepiades.

You can learn a lot about yourself with what youre doing and who youre with on a sunday.

I want Virgin to be as well-known around the world as Coca-Cola.