When you say, "History is written by the winners," you like to think about someone who isn't you. You want to think, "Oh, that's the juggernaut I'm standing against." But you're probably part of it.

I wrote Rick before I was published, and I had no vision of it, really. It was just a story that occurred to me, and that put its little claws in my brain, and I wrote it, and I showed it to a couple people, and they all said, "This is ghastly."

There are some people who believe that home is where one hangs one's hat, but these people tend to live in closets and on little pegs.

Lately it has become more and more difficult to attend dinner parties without the evening ending in gunfire or tapioca.

There are some secrets you want to keep to yourself, even if they don't matter. They might only matter if you keep them secret.

How did you do that?” Mr. Poe asked. “Nice girls shouldn’t know how to do such things.” “My sister is a nice girl,” Klaus said, “and she knows how to do all sorts of things.

This is like a cookie, it tastes like a cookie having sex with a doughnut.