If I cared for human approval, I would have been dead long ago.

An untrampled scorpion troubles no one.

Laws are a fine thing on paper, but painful when no bribery can ease their bind.

The problem with surviving was that you ended up with the ghosts of everyone you’d ever left behind riding on your shoulders.

Suicide is not something I owe you or yours.

Knowledge is simply a terrible ocean we must cross, and hope that wisdom lies on the other side.

Killing isn't free. It takes something out of you every time you do it. You get their life; they get a piece of your soul. It's always a trade.

I'm a chess piece. A pawn,' she said. 'I can be sacrificed, but I cannot be captured. To be captured would be the end of the game.

The surfeit of bad trends pushes me to set my stories in worlds which are often diminished versions of our own present.

The future looks a bit bleak to me.

But then, that was the problem with pretty toy stitches. When real life got hold of them, they always tore out.

No’ might make them angry but it will make you free.

We are all children coming inside from recess with varying degrees of dirt on us.

The best part of chronic head lice is it takes away your fear of dying alone.

Thumbelina what's the difference if you're very small? When your heart is full of love you're nine feet tall!

Cuba has the cleanest and most-educated prostitutes in the world.

Watching a baby being born is a little like watching a wet St. Bernard coming in through the cat door.

All paths lead nowhere; choose one with heart...

Stopping leaks is a new form of censorship.

You can kill time in a number of ways but it always depends on the kind of time you're fighting: some time is unkillable, immortal

People talk philosophically, Oh, I don't want to live past 100.' You know, I'd like to hear them say that when they're 99.