We all float down here!

They're animals, all right. But why are you so goddam sure that makes us human beings?

He who speaks without an attentive ear is mute.

When a good writer is having fun, the audience is almost always having fun too.

You can go through your whole life telling yourself that life is logical, life is prosaic, life is sane. Above all sane. And I think it is. I've had a lot of time to think about that. And what I keep coming back to is [her] dying declaration: 'So you understand that when we increase the number of variables, the axioms themselves never change.'

I was in enough to get along with people. I was never socially inarticulate. Not a loner. And that saved my life, saved my sanity. That and the writing. But to this day I distrust anybody who thought school was a good time. Anybody.

Seven, Richie thought. That's the magic number. There has to be seven of us. That's the way it's supposed to be.