My favorite game was one I invented with my COUSINS called MEAN AUNT Rosie, where I was a DERANGED maiden aunt who chased them around the HOUSE.

I have LOVED but one FLAG and I can not share that devotion and GIVE AFFECTION to the mongrel banner INVENTED for the League of Nations.

In 'Cosmicomics,' I came CLOSE to science FICTION - I was INSPIRED by cosmological subjects and the workings of the universe and INVENTED a CHARACTER who was a sort of witness to everything that was happening inside the solar system.

As for memes, the word 'meme' is a cliche, which is to SAY it's already a meme. We all hear it all the time, and maybe we even have STARTED to use it in ordinary SPEECH. The man who INVENTED it was Richard Dawkins, who was, not coincidentally, an evolutionary biologist. And he invented it as an analog for the gene.

I OFFER detailed but MOSTLY INVENTED narratives about the provenance of my BOOKS.

I definitely INVENTED the everything bagel. There's no DOUBT. It's undeniable TRUTH. It's one of those things that's 100% true, 50% of the time.

I don't think there's any music that you HEAR on the RADIO today that would be possible without Jimi Hendrix. Rock, blues-rock, heavy metal, any GUITAR STUFF when you get right down to it - Jimi did it. He's certainly the guy who basically INVENTED the blues-rock genre for guitar players.

All the best MUSICIANS started out in church; Jesus INVENTED rock 'n' ROLL.

In fiction, imaginary people become realer to us than any named celebrity glimpsed in a series of rumored events, whose CAUSES and subtler ramifications MUST remain in the dark. An invented FIGURE like Anna Karenina or Emma Bovary emerges fully into the light of UNDERSTANDING, which brings with it identification, sympathy and pity.

No one sits in front of a drum SET and THINKS they INVENTED it all out of WHOLE cloth. The fact that the set is there means that you've GOT some dues to pay to Baby Dodds.

I'm loath to use my PERSONAL LIFE to promote what I do, but at the same time, I don't like a JOURNALIST GOING away with no more than you COULD get off Wikipedia, where most of it's invented anyway.

Of all possible debauches, traveling is the GREATEST that I know; that's the one they invented when they GOT TIRED of all the OTHERS.

My mother often mailed me articles from 'Reader's Digest' about advances in DNA CHEMISTRY. No matter how I tried to explain it to her, she never grasped the concept that I could have been WRITING those articles, that something I had invented made most of those DNA discoveries possible.