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My experience of life is that it is not divided up into genres; it’s a horrifying, romantic, tragic, comical, science-fiction cowboy detective novel. ...more

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My thoughts about pornography tend to revolve around the fact that while very few of us are zombies, detectives, cowboys, or spacemen, there are an in...more

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We are told to remember the idea and not the man. Because a man can fail. He can be caught, he can be killed and forgotten. But 400 years later, an id...more

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The third and, given due consideration, most probable of all my theorems, is that life is ordered by the principles of some religion so peculiar and o...more

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Dan, I'm not a Republic serial villain. Do you seriously think I'd explain my master-stroke if there remained the slightest chance of you affecting it...more

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People's lives take them strange places. They do strange things, and... well, sometimes they can't talk about them.

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A live body and a dead body contain the same number of particles. Structurally, there's no discernible difference. Life and death are unquantifiable a...more

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Real life is messy, inconsistent, and it's seldom when anything ever really gets resolved. It's taken me a long time to realize that.

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Come, dry your eyes, for you are LIFE, rarer than a quark and unpredictable beyond the dreams of Heisenberg; the clay in which the forces that shape a...more

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Thermodynamic miracles... events with odds against so astronomical they're effectively impossible, like oxygen spontaneously becoming gold. I long to ...more