It was like being at an Arabian hoedown with a band of psychedelic hillbillies (p. 171).

In the war of magic and religion, is magic ultimately the victor? Perhaps priest and magician were once one, but the priest, learning humility in the face of God, discarded the spell for prayer.

We were as Hansel and Gretel and we ventured out into the black forest of the world.

I learned from him that often contradiction is the clearest way to truth

Why can't I write something that would awake the dead? That pursuit is what burns most deeply.

Who can know the heart of youth but youth itself?

He wasn't supposed to die, ' he cried out, somewhat desperately, petulantly, like a spoiled child. But I could hear other thoughts racing between us.Neither are you.Neither am I.

He wrote me a note to say we would create art together and we would make it, with or without the rest of the world.

I preferred an artist who transformed his time, not mirrored it.

It had started with the moon, inaccessible poem that it was.

I had no proof that I had the stuff to be an artist, though I hungered to be one

And, the treasure? A library card: key to all the doors in the story world.

Emily wondered whether Artie would be so carefree if he knew The Book Club was performing grand theft imagination.

The are things that you might forget, but you might not clearly forget. Time is the only coin you have to buy the things you want to remember, and to pay for the things you want to leave behind.

The learning curve is 'The Hobbit' is being shot in 3D.

Nothing is ever enough when what you are looking for isn't what you really want.

You're never really cancer-free and I should have known that.

I just don't watch a lot of TV.

Before the iPhone, cyberspace was something you went to your desk to visit. Now cyberspace is something you carry in your pocket.

All calls for justice require that victims feel avenged, and revenge is never just if it’s disproportionate.

It is those books which a man possesses but does not read which constitute the most suspicious evidence against him.