In the absences of a decent time machine, fiction remains the most sturdy vehicle for visiting other eras.
I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
I think people want their illusions and writers are mostly illusion. When you read their words, you read a flattened, incomplete version of the writer.
If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either.
Good taste is the enemy of comedy.
Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.
Someone dragged me by my arms out onto the road, then shoved me, stumbling, down a paved road.