What was life worth, anyway, if you had to sit around remembering not to mention this, that, and the other thing because someone else might be upset?

Better freedom and a chilly road than a warm hearth and servitude.

The result is ... that there's no room left in the world for the weird – though plenty for crude, contemptuous, wisecracking, fun-poking imitations of it.

I abominate any organization that denies cats are people!

Then time seemed to stop, or rather to lose its directional urgency of movement; it became a place in the open where one stood rather than a low, narrow corridor down which one was hurried.

Of course, if you assume a big enough conspiracy, you can explain anything, including the cosmos itself.

There are vampires and vampires, and not all of them suck blood.

The gods spend the wealth the universe gathers, they scan the wonders and fling them to nothingness. That's why they're the gods! I told you they were devils.

There was always something new to be seen in the unchanging night sky.

Nations are as equal as so many madmen or drunkards.

Ningauble shrugged. You're a hero. You should know.

In what areas are you learning and growing? If the answer is none that means you're stagnating or regressing. Learn more, earn more, know more, grow more!

Sometimes your hero is you.

Multitude, solitude: equal and interchangeable terms for the active and prolific poet.

If you wish to be positive, which means youthful, never speak of the past any more than you can help.

I have faith, as I did when I announced my stem-cell decision in 2001, that science and ethics can coexist.

The sun's sweet ray is hovering discovered.

Now is the time for drinking; now the time to beat the earth with unfettered foot.

You cannot invent an algorithm that is as good at recommending books as a good bookseller.

If you can't hear me, it's because I'm in parentheses.

Atheism is a religion itself complete with fanatics and bigots.