If you had enough money, you could hardly commit crimes at all. You just perpetrated amusing little peccadilloes.

But I think you have a right to know what it is you’re not being told.

Destiny is important, see, but people go wrong when they think it controls them. It's the other way around.

First draft: let it run. Turn all the knobs up to 11. Second draft: hell. Cut it down and cut it into shape. Third draft: comb its nose and blow its hair. I usually find that most of the book will have handed itself to me on that first draft.

I should have learned this, she thought. I wanted to learn fire, and pain, but I should have learned people.

Cake is not the issue here.

Questions don't have to make sense, Vincent," said Miss Susan. "But answers do.