I got Oedipus off the incest charge--technicality, of course--he didn't know it was his mother at the time..

Failure concentrates the mind wonderfully. If you don't make mistakes, you're not trying hard enough..

For every expert there is an equal and opposite expert..

If the real world were a book, it would never find a publisher. Overlong, detailed to the point of distraction-and ultimately, without a major resolu….

Almost anything can be improved with the addition of bacon..

We're in a psuedoscientific technobabble..

Cats aren't really friendly, they're just cozying up to the dominant life-form as a hedge against extinction..

If the real world were a book, it would never find a publisher..

Dead. Never been that before. Not even once..

To each our own Hamlet..

the Real-World was a sprawling mess of a book in need of a good editor..

Our notions of self-determination are, on the whole, something of a myth. We are governed almost exclusively by our own peculiar habits, which makes ….

Books may look like nothing more than words on a page, but they are actually an infinitely complex imaginotransference technology that translates odd….

She wasn't the only one to be physically morphed by reader expectation. Miss Havisham was now elderly whether she liked it or not, and Sherlock Holme….

Everything comes to an end. A good bottle of wine, a summer’s day, a long-running sitcom, one’s life, and eventually our species. The question for ma….

The government was to raise the duty on cheese to 83 percent, an unpopular move that would doubtless have the more militant citizens picketing cheese….

If it weren't for greed, intolerance, hate, passion and murder, you would have no works of art, no great buildings, no medical science, no Mozart, no….

Marriage, like spinach and opera, was something I had never thought I would like..

That's the thing about destiny: It can't be predicted, and it's usually pretty odd..

Sorry," [Hamlet] said, rubbing his temples. "I don't know what came over me. All of a sudden I had this overwhelming desire to talk for a very long t….

Governments and fashions come and go but Jane Eyre is for all time..