If I ever saw my muse she would be an old woman with a tight bun and spectacles poking me in the middle of the back and growling, "Wake up and write the book!

I have a theory that kitchens, once they reach a certain level of complexity, attract new gadgets into their orbit, like planets. Only this can account for the fact that I own two melon ballers.

I'm concealing a lot of things. That's what a lady does.

First, a bath. I'm feeling soiled. Too much contact with cold reality, I think.

This was cheering. The real world was still there, it still contained puppies being puppies and cats being cats.

Until our education system is repositioned to take care of the tripartite nature of a human being - head, heart and hand, we cannot make healthy progress as a nation or individuals.

Football's not just about scoring goals - it's about winning.

The first time I took LSD, it just blew everything away. I had such an incredible feeling of well-being.

All genuine learning comes through experience.

All human organs eventually tire, only the tongue doesn't.

..you wanted to be the Superman who was never Clark Kent

Revision is not going back and fussing around, but going forward into the process of creation

I can read minds, but I'm illiterate.

As material fortune is associated with the properties of the body, so honor belongs to those of the soul.

If you like Battlestar Galactica...you're probably a huge nerd.