“I owe the discovery of Uqbar to the conjunction of a mirror and an encyclopedia.”

“Live to discover, as long as discovery leads to a love that comes from the Creator... writing was the mirror to life.”

“Will there ever be an encyclopedia? Possibly. I would say two things about the encyclopedia: firstly, I’ve always said and I stand by it, whenever I do do a printed encyclopedia I would like all the proceeds to go to charity. Back in 1998 I never dreamt I personally I would be in the position that I could set up a large charitable foundation and personally do things for charity, and I’ve done other charity books already.”

“If I could, I'd write a huge encyclopedia just about the words luck and coincidence”

“I had a terrible vision: I saw an encyclopedia walk up to a polymath and open him up.”

“Who knew Lenny was an encyclopedia for useless information?”