Life is a series of sudden disappearances, leave-takings without the proper goodbyes.

You have to salvage what you can, even if you're the one who buried it in the first place.

Everyone knows that wizards are pigheaded and come to bad ends.

Remember, when you don’t know what to do, it never hurts to play Scrabble. It’s like reading the I Ching or tea leaves.

A monster. You and your friends, all of you. Pretty monsters. It's a stage all girls go through. If you're lucky you get through it without doing any permanent damage to yourself or anyone else.

Look. All books are weird when you think about it.... It goes without saying that real life is also weird.

Whether or not this story has a happy ending depends, of course, on who is reading it. Whether you are a wolf or a girl.

Most of My Friends are two-thirds water

I don't think I'm cut out for a job where you have to look professionally tidy. I prefer working in my pajamas and taking showers after lunch.

The beloved may be treacherous, greasy-headed and given to evil habits, or else it can be a man in his late forties who works too much, or it can be an alarm clock.

The zombies were like Canadians, in that they looked enough like real people at first, to fool you.

Your uniqueness is your greatest strength, not how well you emulate others.

I love youMy life stretched over a bridgeI need youMy life stretched over you

Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you have not committed.

Everything passes everything wears out everything breaks.

Check out the produce bin in your fridge or your cabinet before you buy more. When you see something on the verge of going bad, freeze it, turn it into a sauce, make jam.

I've tended to work at fast-growing companies that improve the way business gets done.

Barbarisation may be defined as a cultural process whereby an attained condition of high value is gradually overrun and supersededby elements of lower quality.

Political suicide can end a career.

A secret ceases to be a secret if it is once confided - it is like a dollar bill, once broken, it is never a dollar again.

Being compared to the greatest-ever safety is pretty ridiculous. I continue to work toward that, but I'm not there and I know that.