There's nothing for getting you good fast like having to be good fast, if that makes any sense.

I really like being able to laugh at my own jokes.

What I say is, a town isn't a town without a bookstore. It may call itself a town, but unless it's got a bookstore it knows it's not fooling a soul.

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

After a while it sort of began to rain, which is to say that it was the kind of rain that never comes to a decision about whether it's actually raining or not. Driving in it, you would never have been certain whether or not to turn on your wipers.

There were people you could hug, and then there was Silas.

I am the most unhappy soul alive." "I'd heard it said that fairies have no souls." "Then do I ache, and bleed, and smart, elsewhere; still, call it soul for it is solely mine.