Only the nerds will save the earth.

Generally speaking, I think it is fair to say that I am a friend to the creatures of the Earth when I am not busy eating them or wearing them.

A stopped clock is correct twice a day, but a sundial can be used to stab someone, even at nighttime.

Specificity is the soul of narrative.

I am not beautiful, so I don't know why I'm making myself ugly. But the mustache stays.

All I can ask from society is that it please stop telling me why I should like sports.

I actually own a copy of my own book; that's how dedicated I am as an author.

There is no ritual that enhances creativity other than just starting.

My career as a magazine writer was largely prefaced on the idea of curiosity, to go on adventures and weasel my way into the lives of people that I admire.

A literary agent is nothing but a cheap salesman (or woman); while a writer is a cheap salesman (or woman) who also has to actually write the books.

The villain of any story is often the most compelling character.

After all, inside every woman, no matter how grown up she is, there is still a frightened little girl.

A street without trees is a street only for the sick-minded people whose god is nothing but money!

A politician will do anything to keep his job - even become a patriot.

Nurses - nurses, you'm all the same. Full of cheerfulness over other people's troubles.

It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.

A man may not transgress the bounds of major morals, but may make errors in minor morals.

If you pursue a distancer, he or she will distance more. Consider it a fundamental law of physics.

If you have to ask, you'll never know.

...to learn and not to do is really not to learn. To know and not to do is really not to know.

To go behind a man's hall-door is mean, cowardly, unfair opposition.