“It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.”

“I don’t necessarily agree with everything I say.”

“Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.”

“You know everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.”

“Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.”

“Writing gives you the illusion of control, and then you realize it’s just an illusion, that people are going to bring their own stuff into it.”

“Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.”

“I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.”

“There are more fools in the world than there are people.”

“It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put out on the troubled sea of thought.”