Werewolves are much more common animals than you might think.

I've said this before, and I say it again. Bagels can be an enormous power for good or for evil. It is up to us to decide how we will use them.

The old saw about old dogs and new tricks only applies to certain people.

I went to college, but I learned to write by reading - and writing.

I believe it is impossible to make sense of life in this world except through art.

It doesn't matter who you are, or what you've done, or think you can do. There's a confrontation with destiny awaiting you. Somewhere, there is a chile you cannot eat.

Well you know, it's true that as a fat person I run a greater risk of heart disease, diabetes, and a number of other things. But guess what? The amount of that risk is almost infinitessimal!

Some women have said, 'Gee, here I am getting involved with this fat guy, what will people think of me?' But they were converted and sometimes surprised.

Hoboken is a neat place.

Read a lot. Write a lot. Have fun.

My parents believe in the principle of ‘sink or swim,’ or ‘what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger ― or it kills you.” From “The Education of Robert Nifkin

No matter what your logic is, if it is coherent, you can develop a technique to express it.

And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all.

I hope my head doesn't get very big. I'm just going to keep my feet on the ground, stick to friends and family and try to lead a normal life.

Can we go to work now? Because we're about a minute away from breaking out the ice cream and talking about our feelings, and I don't think we can come back from that.

Success is achieved in inches, not miles.

I avoid going through places where there's too much poverty.

Work before eating, rest after eating. Eat not ravenously, filling the mouth gulp after gulp without breathing space.

Computers are useless - all they can give you are answers.

The higher I get the lower I sink.

The next microsecond, as the water erupted around me, I realized too late that I should've brought the entire Twenty-first Nome to help me.