And in real life endings aren't always neat, whether they're happy endings, or whether they're sad endings.

Take the dead from the dead, the old proverb said; only a corpse may speak true prophecy.

But sorry is the Kool-Aid of human emotions. [...] True sorrow is as rare as true love.

What I'd show you is much more bizarre than anything we have looked at so far, and I warn you in advance that the first impulse will be to laugh. That's all right. Laugh if you must. Just don't take your eye off what you see, for even in your imagination, here is a creature who can do you damage.

There's a Mr. Hyde for every happy Jekyll face, a dark face on the other side of the mirror.

The most important things are the hardest to say

I have an idea of how the book will finish up, but it very rarely finishes up the way that I think it's going to.