He was swimming in a sea of other people’s expectations. Men had drowned in seas like that.

Meow!" said the chicken.

Books should be tried by a judge and jury as though they were crimes.

E-books are great for instant gratification - you see a review somewhere of a book that interests you, and you can start reading it five minutes later.

The dreadful cocksureness that is characteristic of scientists in bulk is not only quite foreign to the spirit of true science, it is not even justified by a superficial view.

Who needs sleep? I laugh in the face of sleep!

I like poems that are daggers that sing.

Love is the very essence of life.

I had mostly been writing humor books, and my instinct is generally to go for the joke.

Grant yourself permission to have all that life has to offer, and you will discover it has more to offer than you've ever imagined.

I'm very rarely interested in genres. As long as I feel I can put my DNA out there in the ideology, it works for me.