For me, closing libraries is the equivalent of eating your seed corn to save a little money.

Never use five words if you can get away with one, eh? I've known dead men talk more than you do.

Someone killed my Mother and my Father and my Sister?" "Yes, someone did." "A Man?" "A Man." "Which means," said Bod, "you're asking the wrong question." Silas raised an eyebrow. "How so?" "Well," said Bod. "If I go outside in the world, the question isn't who will keep me safe from him?" "No?" "No. It's who will keep him safe from me?

The young man shivered. He rolled the stock themes of fantasy over in his mind: cars and stockbrokers and commuters, housewives and police, agony columns and commercials for soap, income tax and cheap restaurants, magazines and credit cards and streetlights and computers... 'It is escapism, true,' he said, aloud. 'But is not the highest impulse in mankind the urge toward freedom, the drive to escape?

Love me when I least deserve it, because that’s when I really need it.

Stories may well be lies, but they are good lies that say true things, and which can sometimes pay the rent.

I remembered something somebody had once said to me. It's okay. Everyday is freshly ground.