If you're offended, it's your problem.

She's no flibberti-gibberti mamzell, but a whir-stir-get-lost-sir bundla dynamite!

A man who invents himself needs someone to believe in him... Not only the need to be believed in, but the need to believe in another. You've got it: Love.

Whores and writers, Mahound. We are the people you can't forgive.

Friendships are the family we make - not the one we inherit. I've always been someone to whom friendship, elective affinities, is as important as family.

I don't think people cry reading 'Midnight's Children,' but a lot of people seem to cry watching the movie.

I've always thought that one of the things that the Internet and the gaming world permits as a narrative technique is to not tell the story from beginning to end - to tell stories sideways, to give alternative possibilities that the reader can, in a way, choose between.