To think that realistic fiction is by definition superior to imaginative fiction is to think imitation is superior to invention.

Making female noises, shrieking and squeaking and being shrill, all those things that annoy people with longer vocal cords. Another case where the length of organs seems to be so important to men.

The premise is: everybody's like me and we all think alike.The corollary is: people who don't think like me don't matter.

Baldrick: Have you got a plan, my lord?Blackadder: Yes I have, and it's so cunning you can brush your teeth with it!

until only infinity remained of beauty

Prayer is the voice of faith.

Learning would be exceedingly laborious, not to mention hazardous, if people had to rely solely on the effects of their own actions to inform them what to do.

Bad things don't happen to writers; it's all material.

If you do not feel equal to the headaches that psychiatry induces, you are in the wrong business. It is work - work the like of which I do not know.

I am now willing to forgive myself . . . for believing I could offer something to others before I have offered it to myself.

To look for some kind of insight or meaning in pop songs is not really - well there's plenty of other places where you should probably look first before you start looking for it in a pop song.

You are not accidental. The world needs you. Without you, something will be missing in existence and nobody can replace it.

My kid wants to be a prison warden when he grows up so he can put thumb tacks on the electric chairs.