S. Gregory Quotes

The mirror never sees itself. The reflection never is itself.

Evolution crawls to imperfection. It ends in extinction.

I was pretty young when I saw the original Planet of the Apes, and for a time in the seventies, I was pretty obsessed with it.

It takes a while to get a movie together, and they dont start talking books until the movie is close to being finished.

You confuse not speaking with not listening.

No one controls your destiny. Even at the very worst - there is always choice.

[Puggles] "What population signs on willingly for slavery?" "You mean other than wives?" [Glinda]

She wasn't afraid of doing good or of resisting evil. She was merely afraid she might not be able to tell the difference.

It was deliciously pagan.

That was such a wonderful time, even in its strangeness and sadness-and life isn't the same now. It's wonderful, but it isn't the same.

Even God used silence as a strategy.

And a puzzle is for the piecing together, especially for the young, who still believe it can be done.

She's sent the crows out to blind the guests coming for dinner!" What?" She's BLINDING THE GUESTS COMING FOR DINNER!" Well, that's one way to avoid having to dust, I suppose.

Begging your pardon, sir....One population can't make peace with another by force.

The moon rose, an opalescent goddess tipping light from her harsh maternal scimitar.

Was it an accident that I saw Fiyero, I wondered, looking at the manager with new eyes, or is it just that world unwraps itself to you again and again as soon as you are ready to see it anew?

I like classical music of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and I adore Bach above all.

Children are wickeder than adults, they have no sense of restraint.

Notice, notice; let noticing take the place of screaming.

I do love to sing. Had I a longer set of thigh bones and a sweeter voice, I should have loved to be a performer.

My first job was scooping ice cream at Friendly's in Albany, New York. I hated the work, most of my colleagues, and the uniform, and I more or less lost my taste for ice cream permanently.

I like to think Im a pretty good-natured guy and pretty civil and probably not ever truly guilty in any serious way of any legal infractions.

If you have an ancestor who is a Benedictine monk, we would rather not know it.

I was just about to begin writing Mirror Mirror, within about a week of it, when September 11, 2001 happened. I found myself incapable of caring about fiction-making for a number of months.

Light will blind us in time, but what we learn in the dark can see us through.

To look into the mirror is to see the future, in blood and rubies.

The truth isn't a thing of fact or reason. It is simply what everyone agrees on.

I may not know how to fly but I know how to read, and that's almost the same thing.

Sorrow has a name, and its name is loneliness. Sorrow has a shape, and its shape is absence. Sorrow is a sickness like any other.

Don't wish,"said Rain, "don't start. Wishing only...

No wonder Wonderland isn't funny to read anymore: We live there full time. We need a break from it.

The sweet accident of coincidence is the best foundation on which to build.

When the times are a crucible, when the air is full of crisis, those who are the most themselves are the victims.

Small steps to the madhouse still get us there at last

Before catechisms can instill a proper humility, small children know the truth that their own existence has caused the world to bloom into being.

No one is exempt from grief.

Speaking uses us up, speeds us up. Without prayer, that act of confession for merely existing, one might live forever and not know it.

It's the work that's important, not the individual who does it.

Only he with the hobbled foot fully knows the beauty of running. Only he with the severed ear can apprehend what the sweetest music must sound like. Our ailments complete us.

And it's a cold place the world, especially when warmed by arsen.

For fun? Maybe evil is an art form.

This is why you shouldn't fall in love, it blinds you. Love is wicked distraction.

I actually prefer female voices to listen to, mostly, but among the male singers whose voices I like are Jeff Buckley, Art Garfunkel, that sort of voice. Contemporary crooners rather than rockers.

That's what misbehavior is all about, just a little extra loving being asked for.

...and he kissed her and kissed her and kissed her, little by little by little.

In a sense, Out of Oz is an examination of how individuals keep going, keep reinventing themselves and their lives, even after life-altering complications have afflicted them.

I mean, evil and boredom. Evil and ennui. Evil and the lack of stimulation. Evil and sluggish blood.

What goes unnamed remains hard to correct.

Forgive us our trespasses," says Margarethe, "and get out of our way.

Skibbereen have a hard time at [math]; the best that the smartest of them can do with adding two plus two is guessing: three plus one. Correct, sort of, but not always useful.