Mirrors,' she said, 'are never to be trusted.

Anywhere that I can't check my email is a good place to write!

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.

I don't necessarily think stories have functions any more than diamonds have functions, or the sky has a function... Stories exist. They keep us sane, I think. We tell each other stories, we believe stories. I love watching the slow rise of the urban legend. They're the stories that we use to explain ourselves to ourselves.

Truly, life is wasted on the living, Nobody Owens. For one of us is too foolish to live, and it is not I.

Adult helplessness destroys children. Or it forces them to become tiny adults of their own.

Songs remain. They last...A song can last long after the events and the people in it are dust and dreams and gone. That's the power of songs.