You could try making sense out of the universe, but you were too small and the parts you needed to see were too large or even smaller.

Just because the world often seemed to reward ugliness was no excuse to give up on beauty.

The world had edges but you couldn’t see them going, only when you were trying to come back.

If it wasn’t possible to reinvent the past in such a way as to make it conform to the present’s cheerful view of the way things ought to have been, why bother living?

...the beginning and the end of time. These are the same thing, as everybody knows who came into this universe via a wormhole.

A girl in a crown of stars was coming toward him, but before she could see who he was he slipped through his curtains of flesh.

The irony was not lost on any of us that despite the theme there was a robot on the throne.

It isn’t time that folds, it’s space.

In my lap I had my dear little pug, the smell of whose ears will always be sweeter to me than all the perfumes of Araby and the scent of heliotrope combined.

Everybody thinks it’s going to be different for them, Janice said. The dinosaurs thought so too.

We did not touch each other. We were both leaning over the abyss.

The truth is that everything contains everything else. We cannot just be, we can only inter-be.

Of all the characteristics needed for both a happy and morally decent life, none surpasses gratitude. Grateful people are happier, and grateful people are more morally decent.

I've been reading ghost stories ever since I could read. I'm immensely curious about ghosts and UFOs and all that stuff, but I'm a very hard-headed person.

From time immemorial History has decreed that territory on this Planet Earth belongs to those powerful enough to take it and determined enough to keep it.

I have an instinct for music, or a feeling about it, and I'll have my feelings guide my hands.

I'm doing exactly what I want to do, and I'm having fun doing it.

Warren Beatty was one hell of a lover - but we fought like stray dogs

I don't know why I write really depressing songs. I'm a kind of melancholy guy, I suppose. But I figure I'm about normal.