I'm not a character in any of my books.

She is pure Alice in Wonderland, and her appearance and demeanor are a nicely judged mix of the Red Queen and a Flamingo.

Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.

A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That's why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet.

I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.

The wind is us-- it gathers and remembers all our voices, then sends them talking and telling through the leaves and the fields.

Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot.

I love New York, even though it isn't mine, the way something has to be, a tree or a street or a house, something, anyway, that belongs to me because I belong to it.

When you've got nowhere to turn, turn on the gas.

Well, I'm about as tall as a shotgun, and just as noisy.

A man who doesn't dream is like a man who doesn't sweat. He stores up a lot of poison.

Don't spend your life wondering "what if" and worrying over something you have no control. What's done is done. Looking backwards will cause you to miss out on new blessings ahead. Move on.

It's him, " I said. "Typhon."I was seriously hoping Chiron would say something good, like 'No, that's our huge friend Leroy! He's going to help us!

Being big and famous doesn't get you more freedom, it gets you less.

I don't know why, but I've always been a sucker for roller coasters in movies.

What has philosophy got to do with measuring anything? It's the mathematicians you have to trust, and they measure the skies like we measure a field.

Art should be life. It's an imitation of life. It should have some humanity in it.

Is it every man and woman's curse to want it all and only get ten percent of it? Or do we ask too much?

A perfect martini should be made by filling a glass with gin then waving it in the general direction of Italy.

I understand people's suffering, people's pain, more than you will every know yourself.

The first season, 'Supernatural' was very anthology-like. It was like a scary story of the week that the brothers would solve.