I've reached the age where anyone who lets me talk seems like an old By listening to my memories, you have become part of them.

You have what is known as a lot of character, meaning you can be wrong at the top of your lungs.

Perfect young men don't get murdered, they don't even get born.

The world of maps is nice and flat and simple. It has areas for people and areas for monsters. What a shock it is to discover the world is round and the areas merge and nothing separates the monsters and ourselves; that we are all whirling around in space together and there isn't even a graceful way of falling off.

When you're counting alibis and not apples, one plus one equals none.

Any good marriage involves a certain amount of play-acting.

To the uneducated eye, as to the incurious mind, much of the world is in darkness, and a thousand songs are lost on the unlistening ear.