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

His avenging angel had come to call him home. A suicide was waiting for him back in his own world, and by now he ought to have learned enough to get through it successfully.

I'm not a writer because I want to make money. I'm a writer because I'm a very slow thinker, but I do care about thinking, and the only way I know how to think with any kind of finesse is by telling stories.

The devil is a very big angel, but a very little man.

The more civilized we become, the more horrendous our entertainments.

When the dawn light is coursing through the slats in the shutters at last, making thin stripes on the floor, she, tossing, decides that for every human soul there must surely be a possible childhood worth living, but once it slips by, there isn’t any reclaiming it or revising it.

My job is to protect you, Lady Glinda even if you are loosing your mind.