The future looks a bit bleak to me.

An untrampled scorpion troubles no one.

Laws are a fine thing on paper, but painful when no bribery can ease their bind.

The problem with surviving was that you ended up with the ghosts of everyone you’d ever left behind riding on your shoulders.

Suicide is not something I owe you or yours.

Knowledge is simply a terrible ocean we must cross, and hope that wisdom lies on the other side.

Killing isn't free. It takes something out of you every time you do it. You get their life; they get a piece of your soul. It's always a trade.

I'm a chess piece. A pawn,' she said. 'I can be sacrificed, but I cannot be captured. To be captured would be the end of the game.

The surfeit of bad trends pushes me to set my stories in worlds which are often diminished versions of our own present.

But then, that was the problem with pretty toy stitches. When real life got hold of them, they always tore out.

Some things, it was better not to think about. It just made you mad and angry.

It's funny how the colors of the real world only seem really real when you watch them on a screen.

A writer is someone who has taught his mind to misbehave.

The economists will have to revise their theories of value.

If wits were pins, the man would be a veritable hedgehog.

The beat generation (coined in Playboy)

I just want to put some positive stuff out there. If it works, great. If it doesn't, no problem.

I feel connected to a higher power when I'm making music or performing. There's a spiritual experience for me.

When I was a teenager, my dad watched my films and told me I could go to art college and study animation. He made me see that I could do this for a living.

I want to get out of the major opera houses.

And we used to do a lot of drugs and get very drunk on very cheap wine.