There's more than one way to skin a cat, my father used to say; it bothered me, I didn't see why they would want to skin a cat even one way.

Love is giving, marriage is buying and selling. You can't put love into a contract.

Amazing how the heart clutches at anything familiar, whimpering Mine!Mine!

We all know that a book is not really a person. It isn’t a human being. But if you are a lover of books as books – as objects, that is – and ignore the human element in them – that is, their voices – you will be committing an error of the soul, because you will be an idolator, or else a fetishist.

If I pick up a book with vampires on the cover, I want there to be vampires. If I pick up a book with spaceships on the cover, I want spaceships. If I see one with dragons, I want there to be dragons inside the book. Proper labeling. Ethical labeling.

There were a lot of gods. Gods always come in handy, they justify almost anything.

After everything that's happened, how can the world still be so beautiful? Because it is.