"I think that novels that leave out technology misrepresent life as badly as Victorians misrepresented life by leaving out sex."

"Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God."

"True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country."

"You can't fight for your life and sanity and then leave the battlefield and go home and live happily ever after."

"I've always been an optimist, even when things were bad."