Fantasy was always only a reality waiting to be switched on.

Already, though, she understood the difference between being a child and being an adult. The difference is when someone says he can keep the bad things away, a child believes him.

The difference between childhood and adulthood, Vic had come to believe, was the difference between imagination and resignation. You traded one for the other and lost your way.

Gold don't come off. What's good stays good no matter how much of a beating it takes.

You sure you're all right? You aren't out here pondering dark female thoughts are you?

He believed in his own decency with all his heart. So it was with every true monster, Vic supposed.

Why am I not good at anything?""You're a good dad.""It ain't rocket science."No, Vic thought. It was harder.

You loved me as hard as you knew how. I'd give anything to go back and love you better...

To be honest, I think cell phones were invented by the devil.

There are times when I am so unlike myself that I might be taken for someone else of an entirely opposite character.

Shame has poor memory.

There can be no stronger proof of the impoverishment of our contemporary culture than the popular - though profoundly mistaken - definition of myth as falsehood.

Language is the tool of my trade -and I use them all - all the Englishes I grew up with

If god really wanted people to be free of [wicked thoughts], he should have taken more care to invent a different species.

The majority of the people I work with are more than musicians and singers, they are personal friends and friends help each other.

I'm usually always thinking about the cons.

It keeps you grounded, you lead a regular life and you appreciate things more.

I've always thought the law ought to put on spectacles, it has mighty poor eyesight once in a while.

If you want to know the reality, you have to become the spirit.