If you're functional, it doesn't matter if you're mad.

As far as I can see, it's not important that we have free will, just as long as we have the illusion of free will to stop us going mad.

We were so mad. My girlfriend was out of town, so I couldn't go, but everybody else was bummed. Everybody at the prom was asking, 'Did y'all win? Did y'all win?' I mean, it's become contagious in the school. It's ridiculous.

No matter how powerful our political and religious leaders think they are, they are as dust before the immense and implacable forces of history and progress. I just hope that they don't make too much of a mess or take too many more people down with them.

No matter what you do or where you are, you're going to be missing out on something.

There's been a growing dissatisfaction and distrust with the conventional publishing industry, in that you tend to have a lot of formerly reputable imprints now owned by big conglomerates.