It is an amazing thing, the difference to one’s powers of concentration a pair of comfortable shoes can make.

Using insult instead of argument is the sign of a small mind.

I crawled into my book and pulled the pages over my head.

You cannot help being a female, and I should be something of a fool were I to discount your talents merely because of their housing.

Impossibility is a log thrown on the fires of love.

Most damning of phrases: He meant well.

...but somehow the madness around me and the turmoil I carried within myself acted as counterweights, and I survived in the centre.

It was hypnotic, and then it was unsettling, and finally I became aware of another entity in my universe, sitting on the shore two hundred yards away, smoking a pipe.

That's what tears are for, you know, to wash away the fear and cool the hate.

Only the careless leave a possibility unattended due to assumptions.

Libraries made me - as a reader, as a writer, and as a human being.

Everyone looks retarded once you set your mind to it.

I don't like trends. They tend to make everybody look the same.

None of the European girls, including Anita Ekberg, has anything not found on American girls as well.

Law is but a heathen word for power.

I love the idea that if you build something with enough depth and texture, you can watch it again and again and see new things every time, and that's very important.

I'm a control freak with regards to certain aspects. I think you just have to be when you're making stuff in the world. You have to have a clear idea what you want.

Alright, he's chucking his toys out the basket and Gary Shaw has a big mouth and shouts a lot.

The more telly you do, the more it feels like a factory.

You can keep the body as well-oiled and receptive as possible, but whether you're actually going to be able to go for the long haul is really not your own choice.

When we were engaged in the problems of survival we had no time to have anything to do with culture.