I had a connoisseur's... appreciation of fear.

If I planned everything out in advance, I'd expire of boredom.

Instead, I was interested in what I guess I could call narrative indeterminacy, in questioning the apparent, taken-for-granted authority of any particular representation of the events in question.

Close your mouth and get out of the way, because here comes Kelly Link, than whom no one is better.

I liked the place I came from. But a lot of what I liked about it was that I had come from there.

To do magic, to do great magic, he has to know himself as a piece of the universe.A piece of the universe?A little piece that has all the rest of it in it. Everything outside of him is also inside of him.

What was the worst thing you've ever done? I won't tell you that, but I'll tell you the worst thing that ever happened to me...the most dreadful thing.