You can't drown your troubles ... because troubles can swim.

I wish people would quit telling me to think. I think. Thinking's easy. It's not thinking that's hard.

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.

Private problems don't constitute an excuse for bad manners.

The sun was shining like a congratulation.

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.

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