Now there were stars overhead, hanging like frozen spears of light, stabbing the night sky.

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.

Happiness was but the occasional episode in a general drama of pain.

The doubters said, "Man can not fly, " The doers said, "Maybe, but we'll try, " And finally soared In the morning glow While non-believers Watched from below.

The world is with you.

The greater amount of truth is impulsively uttered; thus the greater amount is spoken, not written.

Oh, if I had been loved at the age of seventeen, what an idiot I would be today. Happiness is like smallpox: if you catch it too soon, it can completely ruin your constitution.

Faerie is a perilous land, and in it are pitfalls for the unwary, and dungeons for the overbold.

At that moment he knew one thing. The only thing that mattered. He loved her.

Doctor Killebrew was also in the script at one point, and for creative reasons we ended up cutting him.

I always do that, get into something and see how far I can go.

Whatever you do, you should do it with feeling.