How are you managing to keep everyone from aging?” Celia asks after a while. “Very carefully,” Marco answers.

I'm kind of big on performance in general. I like the sort of entertainment where you can go in and be fully immersed in it.

...He is sure that the Bailey he is now is closer to the Bailey he is supposed to be than the Bailey he had been before

I am haunted by the ghost of my father, I think that should allow me to quote Hamlet as much as I please.

Natural talent is a questionable phenomenon. Inclination perhaps, but innate ability is extremely rare.

The most difficult thing to read is time. Maybe because it changes so many things.

You don't have to be a chef or even a particularly good cook to experience proper kitchen alchemy: the moment when ingredients combine to form something more delectable than the sum of their parts.