“Unhappy parents teach you a lesson that lasts a lifetime.”

“First wives are a rite of passage into adult life. In many ways its important that first marriages go wrong. Thats how we learn the truth about ourselves.”

“Elaborate burial customs are a sure sign of decadence.”

“Memories have huge staying power, but like dreams, they thrive in the dark, surviving for decades in the deep waters of our minds like shipwrecks on the sea bed.”

“The ultimate concept car will move so fast, even at rest, as to be invisible.”

“We have annexed the future into our present as merely one of those manifold alternatives open to us”

“Well, pray if you like, only you'd do better to use your judgment.”

“Writing my own novels in the '90s...I never imagined that in ten years, science and rationality would require explanation and defense in a world rocked and ruled by religious fervor. ”

“You may substitute knowledge for superstition without satisfying the needs that drive people into superstition's arms.”

“Romance is the deepest thing in life. It is deeper than reality.”

“when you're a kid, they tell you that it's what's on the inside that counts. Looks don't matter . But that's not true. Guys like Phoebus in The Hunchback, or Dorian, or the old Kyle Kingsbury-- the...”

“Every concept of reality is all in our head, belief is what makes truth.”

“I am older than you. Believe me, there is no other way to live on earth. Men are not open to truth or reason. They cannot be reached by a rational argument. The mind is powerless against them. Yet ...”

“The relationship between truth and reason:"Truth cannot be reached by reason alone!”

“I writeNotFor the sake of gloryNot For the sake of fameNotFor the sake of successBut for the sake of my soul”