Listen, gods die when they are forgotten. People too. But the land's still here. The good places, and the bad. The land isn't going anywhere. And neither am I.

He had kissed her good night that night, and she had tasted like strawberry daiquiris, and he had never wanted to kiss anyone else again.

As sure as water's wet and days are long and a friend will always disappoint you in the end.

Media. I think I have heard of her. Isn't she the one who killed her children?

Call no man happy, said Shadow, until he is dead

The house smelled musty and damp, and a little sweet, as if it were haunted by the ghosts of long-dead cookies.

I believe that all men are just overgrown boys with deep problems communicating.

I could be blindfolded and dropped into the deepest ocean and I would know where to find you. I could be buried a hundred miles underground and I would know where you are.

I believe that life is a game, that life is a cruel joke, and that life is what happens when you're alive and that you might as well lie back and enjoy it.

All your questions can be answered, if that is what you want. But once you learn your answers, you can never unlearn them.

Chicago happened slowly, like a migraine. First they were driving through countryside, then, imperceptibly, the occasional town became a low suburban sprawl, and the sprawl became the city.

Tradition is the living faith of the dead, traditionalism is the dead faith of the living. And, I suppose I should add, it is traditionalism that gives tradition such a bad name.

Fraternize means to behave like a brother. Luke told me that. He said there was no corresponding word that meant to behave like a sister. Sororize, it would have to be, he said. From the Latin.

Art, like religion, arises from the spirit, but alas, the formalizing of spiritual life all too often ends in hypocrisy.

Most of my friends are women - I quite fancied being a woman in a way.

Size, perspective- large objects, when you make them too 3D, you dimensionalize them too much, they appear tiny, so you have to be careful about things like that.

Sin is a dangerous toy in the hands of the virtuous. It should be left to the congenitally sinful, who know when to play with it and when to let it alone.

Possibility is not a luxury; it is as crucial as bread.

Children surviving childhood is my obsessive theme and my life's concern.

I remember the first sale I made was a hundred and fifty dollars for a radio script, and, as poor as I was, I didn't cash the check for three months. I kept showing it to people.

Of course the entire planet Earth consists of magma under us, and only the very inner-core is different.