"Life isn’t divided into genres. It’s a horrifying, romantic, tragic, comical, science-fiction cowboy detective novel. You know, with a bit of pornography if you're lucky."
— Alan Moore

"Speak in French when you can’t think of the English for a thing--
turn your toes out when you walk---
And remember who you are!"
— Lewis Carroll (Through The Looking Glass)

"Remember: that giants sleep too soundly; that witches are often betrayed by their appetites; dragons have one soft spot, somewhere, always; hearts can be well-hidden, and you can betray them with your tongue."
— Neil Gaiman

"My ambition is handicapped by laziness"
— Charles Bukowski (Factotum)

"I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found."
— John Steinbeck (Travels with Charley: In Search of America)

"All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books."
— Jean-Paul Sartre

"You live and learn. At any rate, you live."
— Douglas Adams

"The short answer to that is 'no'. The long answer is 'f*** no'."
— Stephen Fry

"I know that David Tennant's Hamlet isn't till July. And lots of people are going to be doing Dr Who in Hamlet jokes, so this is just me getting it out of the way early, to avoid the rush...
"To be, or not to be, that is the question. Weeelll.... More of A question really. Not THE question. Because, well, I mean, there are billions and billions of questions out there, and well, when I say billions, I mean, when you add in the answers, not just the questions, weeelll, you're looking at numbers that are positively astronomical and... for that matter the other question is what you lot are doing on this planet in the first place, and er, did anyone try just pushing this little red button?"
— Neil Gaiman

"All families are psychotic. Everybody has basically the same family - it's just reconfigured slightly different from one to the next."
— Douglas Coupland