There are too many of us, he thought. There are billions of us and that's too many. Nobody knows anyone. Strangers come and violate you. Strangers come and cut your heart out. Strangers come and take your blood. Good God, who were those men? I never saw them before in my life!

I don't like being up high. It took me three days to get to the top of the Eiffel Tower.

... bums on the outside, libraries inside.

Get the big truth first. If you get the big truth, the small truths will accumulate around it.

I don't believe in being serious about anything. I think life is too serious to be taken seriously.

It's poor judgment', said Grandpa 'to call anything by a name. We don't know what a hobgoblin or a vampire or a troll is. Could be lots of things. You can't heave them into categories with labels and say they'll act one way or another. That'd be silly. They're people. People who do things. Yes, that's the way to put it. People who *do* things.

The novel's not organized like a screenplay. If you shot the novel, you'd have a twelve-hour movie.