Twin miracles of mascara, her eyes looked like the corpses of two small crows that had crashed into a chalk cliff.

Whoever called snooker "chess with balls" was rude, but right.

Snooker is just chess with balls.

Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.

The British secret service was staffed at one point almost entirely by alcoholic homosexuals working for the KGB

A sceptic finds Dallas absurd. A cynic thinks the public doesn't

It is only when they go wrong that machines remind you how powerful they are.

A life without fame can be a good life, but fame without a life is no life at all.

Fiction is life with the dull bits left out.

Disco dancing is just the steady thump of a giant moron knocking in an endless nail.

They had a... dog called Bluey. A know psychopath, Bluey would attack himself if nothing else was available.

Failure is something made only by those who fail to dare not by those who dare to fail.

We roared. We were one big animal throat, roaring.

A geek is a person, male or female, with an abiding, obsessive, self-effacing, even self-destroying love for something besides status

Imagine, a Being with a mind as great as God's, with feet like trees and a voice like rushing wind, telling you that you are His cherished creation.

I bought almost every single thing that I furnished my house with at the Salvation Army in Hawaii. All second hand. Some of them are kind of retro, and some of them you'd never know.

I just knew I would be a writer. It just seemed the only sensible thing to do.

The process of composition, messing around with paragraphs and trying to make really good prose, is hardwired into my personality.

I do not understand why, when I ask for grilled lobster in a restaurant, I'm never served a cooked telephone.

I enjoyed breaking down my matches, because wrestling fans really like to know what I'm actually thinking, and why certain things needed to happen at a certain time.

Be honorable yourself if you wish to associate with honorable people.