One describes a tale best by telling the tale. You see? The way one describes a story, to oneself or to the world, is by telling the story. It is a balancing act and it is a dream. The more accurate the map, the more it resembles the territory. The most accurate map possible would be the territory, and thus would be perfectly accurate and perfectly useless. The tale is the map that is the territory. You must remember this.

Libraries really are the gates to the future.

America was, to them, the place that good people went to when they died. They were prepared to believe just about anything could happen in America.

Most books on witchcraft will tell you that witches work naked. This is because most books on witchcraft were written by men.

Lucifer protests he was never to blame for inducing anyone to sin, and that he’s never had an interest in owning souls: 'They die, and they come here – having transgressed against what they believed to be right – and expect us to fulfill their desire for pain and retribution. I don’t make them come here… I need no souls. And how can anyone own a soul? No, they belong to themselves. They just hate to have to face up to it.

Some things are too big to be seen; some emotions are too huge to be felt.

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