For me the greatest joy is to be able to submerge myself for a few hours every day in a human time that otherwise would be alien to me. A lifetime is not enough.

To build up a library is to create a life. It's never just a random collection of books.

Anyone who thinks they're too grown up or too sophisticated to eat caramel corn, is not invited to my house for dinner

I am like God and God like me. I am as large as God. He is as small as I. He cannot above me nor I beneath him be.

On way. He OK? Aeron Coming. Something wrong? Lucian Take me out of your address book. William

I have seriously thought about retiring, but that was on a good day. On a bad day I've thought about killing myself.

Pearls are always appropriate.

I'll tell you something about tough times. They just about kill you, but if you decide to keep working at them, you'll find your way through.

But to us, probability is the very guide of life.

Abyss-mongering makes professors and poets feel daring.

Underneath it all, we are wild and we know it.

I prefer a dirty victory to a noble defeat.