Happy endings are still endings.

No," she cried, "no, no, I'm not a harem, I'm not a woman, I'm not a person, no.

As long as people are going to call you lunatic anyway, why not get the benefit of it? It liberates you from convention.

Always the bridesmaid , never the bride." Always the godfather, never the god".

I had written childrens books for 14 years before I published Wicked. And none of them were poorly reviewed, and none of them sold enough for me to be able to buy a bed.

Have you ever noticed when you look in a mirror, unless youre really depressed or something, the person in the mirror generally looks a little more competent, a little more curious, a little more intelligent than you actually feel yourself to be? They often look more interesting and more soulful.

He had thought love as a policy made a lot of sense for those who could manage it, and anyone who could manage it belonged in religious life. The rest of us have to struggle with more ordinary love, the common or garden variety: love as a crippling condition. Love as a syndrome.