I never outline. I don't work from an outline. I have no idea where the book is going. I mean, even two-thirds of the way through, I don't know how it's going to end.

Reality whistles a different tune underwater.

We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.

Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.

Religion is not merely the opium of the masses, it's the cyanide.

In the haunted house of life, art is the only stair that doesn't creak.

The beet is the most intense of vegetables

Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.

It is better to be small, colorful, sexy, careless, and peaceful.

To achieve the impossible; it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.

We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves.

conscience is the window of our spirit, evil is the curtain

Sometimes I wake up with such an immense sense of disappointment that I can hardly breathe.

Personally, I look forward to better tools for analyzing C++ source code.

I'm trying to be as green as I can. As an airline pilot, I have a carbon footprint that's a size 10, so it's pretty hard.

But no one has yet succeeded in reducing the size or scope of the federal government

It is as absurd to expect members of philosophy departments to be philosophers as it is to expect members of art departments to be artists.

In language gender is particularly confusing. Why, please, should a table be male in German, female in French, and castrated in English?

The world in which the kestrel moves, the world that it sees, is, and always will be, entirely beyond us. That there are such worlds all around us is an essential feature of our world.

I love going to the cinema. Whenever I get time off, that's where I go.

When I do a job, I do it 100 percent. I am so grateful for the chance to do what I do.