Because nothing makes love and life matter more than the knowledge that some day it must end.

There are any number of magical creatures, mostly female, whose singing can bring about horror and death. Sirens, undines, banshees, Bananarama tribute bands...

Never go anywhere without condiments. Condiments are our friends.

The only good hero is the kind who survives to talk about merchandising.

Nothing is hidden, nothing is ever lost, nothing is ever forgotten. That's always been part of my problem.

Though I often run out of courage and good sense, stubbornness keeps me going.

Sometimes humour is all we have to say the things that can't be said.

You know, sometimes I swear the whole universe runs on irony.

If you don't trust anyone, they can't let you down.

Keep your mind too open, and you never know what might walk in.

Wait. You've got principles? We'll have to update your file.

Marriage without struggle is like an unfired clay pot.It is easily made, but it will not stand the test of time.

In 20 or 30 years, you'll be able to hold in your hand as much computing knowledge as exists now in the whole city, or even the whole world.

and her answer to it because she’s driving the conversation. In

You couldn't have fed the '50s into a computer and come out with the '60s.

The great spirals... apparently lie outside our stellar system.

Would-be income guarantors ignore or despise the capitalistic system that makes their dreams dreamable and gives their redistribute-the-income proposals whatever plausibility they have.

The purification required is not of untouchables but of the so-called superior castes.

I suppose it doesn't occur to you that I can think the system just as unjust as you do.

I think when you have surgery on any part of your body, it's never going to be the same.

I try so hard not to think that I am a stranger in a strange land. But I know that I stand out.