A pamphlet, no matter how good, is never read more than once, but a song is learned by heart and repeated over and over. And I maintain that if a person can put a few common sense facts into a song and dress them up in a cloak of humor, he will succeed in reaching a great number of workers who are too unintelligent or too indifferent to read.

There's only room for one hero in this story-and everyone knows the devil doesn't get to be the good guy.

It bewildered Ig, the idea that a person could not be interested in music. It was like not being interested in happiness.

She breathed deeply of the scent of decaying fiction, disintegrating history, and forgotten verse, and she observed for the first time that a room full of books smelled like dessert: a sweet snack made of figs, vanilla, glue, and cleverness.

You'll have pie in the sky when you die.

Taking a thing apart is always faster than putting something together. This is true of everything except marriage.

Fantasy was always only a reality waiting to be switched on.