The universe, they said, depended for its operation on the balance of four forces which they identified as charm, persuasion, uncertainty and bloody-mindedness.
The trouble with unimaginable horrors was that they were only to easy to imagine.
The sun rose slowly, as if it wasn’t sure it was worth all the effort.
The pen is mightier than the sword, only if the sword is very small and the pen is very sharp.
The important thing about having lots of things to remember is that you’ve got to go somewhere afterward where you can remember them, you see? You’ve got to stop. You haven’t really been anywhere until you’ve got back home.
It is said that the opposite of noise is silence. This isn’t true. Silence is only the absence of noise.
Inside every sane person there’s a madman struggling to get out. No one goes mad quicker than a totally sane person.
I tell them stars have never hurt me, I wish I could say the same about people.
I can’t be talking to a tree. If I was talking to a tree I’d be mad, and I’m not mad, so trees can’t talk.
Grinning like a necrophiliac in a morgue.
Early to rise, early to bed, makes a man healthy, wealthy and dead.
Darkness isn’t the opposite of light, it is simply its absence.
