Light will blind us in time, but what we learn in the dark can see us through.

Yes, I'm nervous. You'll find in time most people are. They simply learn better how to disguise it, and sometimes, if they're wise, how to use their anxiety to serve the public good.

Just my luck, if I believed in luck. I only believe in the opposite of luck, whatever that is.

Was it an accident that I saw Fiyero, I wondered, looking at the manager with new eyes, or is it just that world unwraps itself to you again and again as soon as you are ready to see it anew?

When I write a book, I write very cleanly from page one to the last page. I hardly ever write out of sequence.

My first job was scooping ice cream at Friendly's in Albany, New York. I hated the work, most of my colleagues, and the uniform, and I more or less lost my taste for ice cream permanently.

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