It is no shame to lose to me, mortal. Even among mythical creatures there are very few who can give a unicorn a good game.

I saw my earlier selves as different people, acquaintances I had outgrown. I wondered how I could ever have been some of them.

Life is full of doors that don't open when you knock, equally spaced amid those that open when you don't want them to.

Don't wake me for the end of the world unless it has very good special effects.

The death of an illusion tends to disconcert.

When inspiration is silent reason tires quickly.

That's life: trust and you're betrayed; don't trust and you betray yourself.

There's really nothing quite like someone's wanting you dead to make you want to go on living.

If a building is falling on you, you don't concern yourself with the horn of an approaching car. You deal with the most immediate peril first. That's survival.

To paraphrase Oedipus, Hamlet, Lear, and all those guys, "I wish I had known this some time ago.

Nothing we did in those days has caused a change." "Because of what we did, things remained as they were, rather than getting worse," I told him.

Not all vampires are created equal.

Angry is always hungry to cook guilty.

Even in the familiar there can be surprise and wonder.

All religions must be made child-proof. Our teachers' unions have done good work in this field, K through 12. Delaying first communions and bar mitzvahs until age 21 would be another positive step.

I do not argue with obstinate men. I act in spite of them.

You can talk about Holocaust denial, but it's really marginal for the most part. What is compelling about the Armenian genocide, is how it has been forgotten.

I never knew that I would see the day that I would meet the devil himself.

You don't get to choose what you get famous for and you don't get to control which of your life's many struggles gets to stand for you.

You get up in the morning because you might meet a woman. And if you stay at home by yourself, alone, you will not meet a woman.

We grow tired of everything but turning others into ridicule, and congratulating ourselves on their defects.