Writers are creatures of habit, as are humans, but writers aren’t necessarily human, are they?

Welcome to the real world, Mother Robot, a beautiful and dangerous place. Now you can truly begin to live.

Kindness is the best nourishment for humanity.

We have three cats. It's like having children, but there is no tuition involved.

As long as the body is not in perfect health, you think about it, and that prevents you from thinking of the mind. The sound mind is a sound body.

Any idiot who knows five chords can bang a song together. But it's probably going to be rubbish.

That's what Samuel Johnson said: "Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think particularly fine, strike it out."

The crocodile cannot turn its head. Like all science, it must always go forward with all-devouring jaws.

Once you decide to gut a fish, there's no use waiting till it rots.

I made a 1,600 minus 800 minus 200 on the SAT, so I'm very intelligent when I speak.

With the exception of the instinct of self-preservation, the propensity for emulation is probably the strongest and most alert and persistent of the economic motives proper.