Mothers sometimes are overly possessive, but not all children allow themselves to be possessed.

The man who smiles when things go wrong has thought of someone to blame it on.

Magic--that's just a label, you know. Completely meaningless. It wasn't so very long ago that people were saying that electricity was magic.

So I had this problem -- work or starve. So I thought I'd combine the two and decided to become a writer.

Henderson sighed. There was a time, he reflected, when the coming of this night meant something. A dark Europe, groaning in superstitious fear, dedicated this Eve to the grinning Unknown. A million doors had once been barred against the evil visitants, a million prayers mumbled, a million candles lit. There was something majestic about the idea, Henderson reflected.

Friendship is like peeing on yourself: everyone can see it, but only you get the warm feeling that it brings.

A foolish man tells a woman to stop talking, but a wise man tells her that her mouth is extremely beautiful when her lips are closed.