After my first few tastes I was pretty much hooked. I'd have dry spells, months without any or only piddling amounts of grace, but I never forgot about it or stopped wanting it.

It's regrets that make painful memories. When I was crazy I did everything just right.

Having their feelings make sense is how people get their kicks.

I’m subject to occasional theological nightmares. The one that leaves me in a cold sweat every time is, I arrive at the pearly gates and the first thing I’m asked is where I went to college.

You are the completeness of my incompleteness.

Live like the universe is your beloved home, love like everyone is your closest friend.

Comedy writers don't join fraternities.''Don't pigeon hole me, Georgie, I'm infinite.

There was one slight, desperate chance, and that I decided I must take--it was for Dejah Thoris, and no man has lived who would not risk a thousand deaths for such as she.

The Socialists ask what is our program? Our program is to smash the heads of the Socialists.

... we're living in a Machiavellian world, whether we like it or we don't.

I get off on hearing other people's voices. I like voices: they're my favourite things on records.

When I was around eight, I learned how to touch-type at school, and I received a computer as a present. I started writing plays, and for many years I thought I would be a playwright.

I believe that one of the characteristics of the human race, possibly the one that is primarily responsible for its course of evolution, is that it has grown by creatively responding to failure.

We had nothing to lose and everything to gain.