I may not be sure if monsters exist, but I’d rather live my life in doubt than be persuaded by a real experience of one.

I learned failure early and mastered it.

We live in our tales of ourselves, she thought, and ignore as best we can the contradictions, and the lapses, and the abrasions of plot against our mortal souls.

He knew about being alone. The weather was always cold there.

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.

I know you don't want to hear this but someone has to say it! You are out of control! I mean they're just shoes... let it go!

People who claim that they're evil are usually no worse than the rest of us... It's people who claim that they're good, or any way better than the rest of us, that you have to be wary of.