People are not so dreadful when you know them. That's what you have to remember! And everybody has problems, not just you, but practically everybody has got some problems. You think of yourself as having the only problems, as being the only one who is disappointed. But just look around you and you will see lots of people as disappointed as you are.

Maggie, we're through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door.

What on earth can you do on this earth but catch at whatever comes near you, with both your fingers, until your fingers are broken?

I cannot write any sort of story unless there is at least one character in it for whom I have physical desire.

I saw that it was all over, put away in a box like a doll no longer cared for, the magical intimacy of our childhood together

A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with.

I don't want realism. I want magic!