Books may look like nothing more than words on a page, but they are actually an infinitely complex imaginotransference technology that translates odd, inky squiggles into pictures inside your head.

Fiction wouldn't be much fun without its fair share of scoundrels, and they have to live somewhere.

Books" - Snell smiled - "are a kind of magic.

Anything devised by man has bureaucracy, corrpution and error hardwired at inception.

Prices of semicolons, plot devices, prologues and inciting incidents continued to fall yesterday, lopping twenty points off the TomJones Index.

Now I understand why women want to have children - it's simply the urge to create happiness for yourself, somehow to fill the oppressive, unbearable emptiness in your soul.

Do not let the fear of unknown deter you from trying.Keep trying until you succeed.

It is so unkind--' 'Perhaps. But sometimes a compulsion comes over one to speak the truth!

Science and the many benefits that science has produced have played a crucial part in our history and produced vast improvements to human welfare.

I always think that I'm the best thing in a lot of bad movies. Personally, I have to. I think that I like me as an actor.

Whenever you see a man who is successful in society, try to discover what makes him pleasing, and if possible adopt his system.

Meow is like aloha - it can mean anything.

My ideas have undergone a process of emergence by emergency. When they are needed badly enough, they are accepted.

You can have a film and have 200 white people working on it, and nobody finds anything wrong with that. But if you insist on having a black crew, all of a sudden there's something wrong.

I regret all of my books.