To age truly was to suffer the ultimate treason, that of one's body against oneself.

My name is Stephen Leeds, and I am perfectly sane. My hallucinations, however, are all quite mad.

I will protect those who cannot protect themselves.

You're a very difficult person to manipulate, you know." "Nonsense," he said. "You just have to promise me that I won't have to do a thing, and then I'll do anything you want." "Anything?" "Anything that doesn't require doing anything." "That's nothing, then." "Is it?" "Yes." "Well, that's something.

We were like deaf people trying to dance to a beat we couldn't hear, long after the music actually stopped.

Oh, Wax has always been solemn, but when he's at his best, there's a smirk underneath.

I am a writer who works from an outline. What I generally do when I build an outline is I find focal, important scenes, and I build them in my head and I don't write them yet, but I build towards them.