Some madness doesn't act mad to begin with, sometimes it will knock politely at the door, and when you let it in, it'll simply sit in the corner without a fuss - and grow.

I don't want the world to keep turning without me on it.

Once-upon-a-time we buried the memories we didn't want.

Any punishment is an insult to the crime

She's known sadness. That's what it is. I only just thought that as I wrote it. She's known sadness, and it has made her kind.

When she turned to see me smiling. It was an awkward smile, but you only really know what a smile means when you own the face behind it. Everyone else just sees the smile they expected it to be.

You only really know what a smile means when you own the face behind it. Everyone else just sees the smile they expect it to be.

Inside my head is a jigsaw made of trillions and trillions and trillions of atoms. It might take a while.

But that is what these people do - the Steves of this world - they all try and make something out of nothing. and they all do it for themselves.

You must know that it is by the state of the lavatory that a family is judged.

The reason you want your kids to pay attention in school is you haven't the faintest idea how to do their homework.

It's clear that science and science fiction have overlapping populations.

The lives of prisoners of war after they are returned is almost never discussed, never explored.

Logic plus logic equals the illogical. Do you know what I mean?

Clean, sustainable energy is crucial and cannot wait.

Machiavelli had some cold tricks for people who wanted to be demagogues and wanted to take over the world.

You are the fountain of the sun. I'm the shadow of a willow. You fall upon my forehead. I melt. You slip into my heart. It spills open. You surround me with such sweetness. I make it my home.

What I meant by 'we would know the mind of God' is, we would know everything that God would know, if there were a God. Which there isn't. I'm an atheist.

To see things for what they are is to see with the eyes of the vastness itself.