Knowing that you want to die makes you less scared.

Hard is trying to rebuild yourself, piece by piece, with no instruction book, and no clue as to where all the important bits are supposed to go.

When your sad--like really sad--you only want to be with other people who are sad.

You're not allowed to say anything about books because they're books, and books are, you know, God.

Even thought our problems had driven us up there, it was as if they had somehow, like Daleks, been unable to climb the stairs.

You’ll see, ” Mother assured her. “The fish will be just as friendly and the waves just as fresh in the new world the door makers find for us.

Wait. You work for me?""I prefer to think of it as managing your incompetence.

I've had a long career and I want to continue to have a long career. The way to do that is not to go away.

I believe in the complete freedom of thought and speech - alike for the humblest man and the mightiest, and in the utmost freedom of conduct that is consistent with living in organized society.

The first breath of adultery is the freest; after it, constraints aping marriage develop.

Fantasy is the oldest form of literature and science fiction is just a new twist on it.

Young Jimmy Dean fell off the world as suddenly as he had come.

Most entrepreneurial ideas will sound crazy, stupid and uneconomic, and then they’ll turn out to be right.

Where the realm of freedom of thought and action begin, the determination of individuals according to generic laws ends.

But in a radically atheist universe, you are not only responsible for doing your duty, You are also responsible for deciding what is your duty.