"Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward."

"Mankind has been making a mess of things for a long time. It's time we started cleaning it up."

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

"The function of the artist is to make people like life better than they have before."

"The worst thing that can happen to an artist is to get what he wants."