You may want to keep a commonplace book which is a notebook where you can copy parts of books you think are in code, or take notes on a series of events you may have observed that are suspicious, unfortunate, or very dull. Keep your commonplace book in a safe place, such as underneath your bed, or at a nearby dairy.

It is a lonely feeling when someone you care about becomes a stranger.

'Help me,' Allison says, but she is soft-spoken, and everyone she loves is so far away.

I was in a pharmacy and I saw the warnings on the backs of poisonous substances, and I thought, "Well, that's what I can do." So I wrote a list of ingredients in the book, and warnings that they shouldn't consume those ingredients. The editor and the publisher thought that it was a great way to go in terms of reverse psychology, but it honestly hadn't occurred to me that it was reverse psychology. I just thought that it was sort of an honest assessment making clear that if you were timid or easily disturbed, you could turn away.

Sometimes words are not enough.

I know what is going on," said Sir. "I am the Boss! Of course I know!

You know I want to be a director, but you could never truly see the movies in my head and that, Ed, is why we broke up.