This is a roadside attraction,' said Wednesday. 'One of the finest. Which means it is a place of power.

The tongue is the most remarkable. For we use it both to taste out sweet wine and bitter poison, thus also do we utter words both sweet and sout with the same tongue.

The names are the first things to go, after the breath has gone, and the beating of the heart. We keep our memories longer than our names.

Can't make an omelette without killing a few people.

You're always you, and that don't change, and you're always changing, and there's nothing you can do about it.

I kept starting 'Anansi Boys' as a movie and stopping, and eventually wrote the novel and was happy.

A good writer should be able to write comedic work that made you laugh, and scary stuff that made you scared, and fantasy or science fiction that imbued you with a sense of wonder, and mainstream journalism that gave you clear and concise information in a way that you wanted it.