Do I have to talk to insane people?" "You're a librarian now. I'm afraid it's mandatory.

True and baseless evil is as rare as the purest good - and we all know how rare that is.

What’s the opposite of déjà vu, when you see something that hasn’t happened yet?” “I don’t know—avant verrais?

Literary detection and firearms don't really go hand in hand; pen mighter than the sword and so forth.

Whereas story is processed in the mind in a straightforward manner, poetry bypasses rational thought and goes straight to the limbic system and lights it up like a brushfire. It's the crack cocaine of the literary world.

I also read about Heathcliff's unexpected three-year career in Hollywood under the name Buck Stallion and his eventual return to the pages of Wuthering Heights.

Failure concentrates the mind wonderfully. If you don't make mistakes, you're not trying hard enough.