Slow people are just paying close attention.

People’s souls are like gardens. You can’t turn your back on someone because his garden’s full of weeds. You have to give him water and lots of sunshine.

Patience and love can do anything.

No one can tell the difference between a clone and a human. That's because there isn't any difference. The idea of clones being inferior is a filthy lie.

Look around you...Feel the wind, smell the air. Listen to the birds and watch the sky. Tell me what's happening in the wide world.

After all, what is suffering but an awareness of suffering?

Heroes, well, they don't live so long. But they're muy suave, and we all admire them.

But I also know that to ignore joy while it lasts, in favor of lamenting one's fate, is a great crime.

Guardian angels guide the steps of idiots.

If I had a soul, I’d probably wind up in hell anyway.

Power's a strange thing, lad. It's a drug people like me crave it.

I realize that when I moved out of my father's house I shocked and frightened him because I needed a room of my own, a space of my own to reinvent myself.

I really get a smile that people think they have a right to even suggest how I give my money away. I have no mandate to give a dime to anybody.

Complete control can be the death of a work.

If popular culture has taught us anything, it is that someday mankind must face and destroy the growing robot menace.

Everybody has a cartoon of themselves. Mine is: I write very fast, and I'm ruthlessly efficient with my time.

It's not that I'm rebelling. It's that I'm just trying to find another way.

He wanted to grow old with her, or not grow old at all.

Your point of view sets you up well in advance for how you view the events as they unfold.

Marriage! ... Why, it is like living in a thimble with a hippopotamus!

If you don't like my book, write your own.