A powerful flight of the imagination . . . an entirely enjoyable reading experience, wrought by a pair of writers noted for excellence.

I saw my earlier selves as different people, acquaintances I had outgrown. I wondered how I could ever have been some of them.

Life is full of doors that don't open when you knock, equally spaced amid those that open when you don't want them to.

Don't wake me for the end of the world unless it has very good special effects.

The death of an illusion tends to disconcert.

When inspiration is silent reason tires quickly.

That's life: trust and you're betrayed; don't trust and you betray yourself.

There's really nothing quite like someone's wanting you dead to make you want to go on living.

If a building is falling on you, you don't concern yourself with the horn of an approaching car. You deal with the most immediate peril first. That's survival.

To paraphrase Oedipus, Hamlet, Lear, and all those guys, "I wish I had known this some time ago.

Nothing we did in those days has caused a change." "Because of what we did, things remained as they were, rather than getting worse," I told him.

Foolish names and foolish faces often appear in public places.

Nature is what you may do. There is much you may not do.

The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.

One can build the Empire State Building, discipline the Prussian army, make a state hierarchy mightier than God, yet fail to overcome the unaccountable superiority of certain human beings.

I'm a big fan of featuring all of the local shellfish and seafood provided.

When you exercise your will power you release the power of life energy - not when you merely wish passively to be able to obtain an objective.

It's surprising how soon you can get used to having money. It's much easier than getting used to not having it.

I have always observed that wherever you find the negro, everything is going down around him, and wherever you find the white man, you see everything around him improving.

When I was young, people lived paycheck to paycheck. Today, it seems like they live from credit card payment to credit card payment.

There really aren't any completely Asian people singing right now.