Life would have been absolutely empty without imagination.

We lived on isolated farms and ranches, far from anybody, and when I was young I knew very few other kids, so I lived to a great extent in my imagination.

That was quite an adventure, stopping at a different house each night, seeing new country,.

I'm a strict materialist - but the police are brutal materialists.

[Science fiction is] a specialized type of fantasy, in which the prime assumption usually is a new scientific discovery or invention.

This guy is funny. But is he safe? And how much is that worth when the world itself has ceased to exist?

But we try to pretend, you see, that the external world exists altogether independently of us.

"I think my reputation will look after itself," Holmes said. "If they hang me, Watson, I shall leave it to you to persuade your readers that the whole thing was a misunderstanding."

I don't have credibility, I'm a comedian. I'm not Ed Murrow up on the roof in a London fog reporting on the blitz.

I used to say: "Everything is Representation Theory". Now I say: "Nothing is Representation Theory".

The ne plus ultra of wickedness ... is embodied in what is commonly presented to mankind as the creed of Christianity.

The only thing that goes with Crocs is social Ostracism.

Books are the liberated spirits of men.

The more developed your abs, the less time you've spent reading.

To fear the worst oft cures the worst.