never's the word God listens for when he needs a laugh.

and so will the world end, I think, a victim of love rather than hate. For love's ever been the more destructive weapon, sure.

He who speaks without an attentive ear is mute.

I've met talespinners before, Jake, and they're all cut more or less from the same cloth. They tell tales because they're afraid of life.

Free at last, he thought. Great God Almighty, I'm free at last. Then: I believe this is redemption. And it's good, isn't it? Quite good, indeed.

Most politicians lie for the same reason a monkey swings by his tail, which is to say because he can.

Of course it's heavier, he thought. It's got my grief in it. I pull it along with me everywhere I go, so I do.

The prosaic fact of the universe's existence alone defeats both the pragmatist and the romantic.

All is forgotten in the stone halls of the dead. These are the rooms of ruin where the spiders spin and the great circuits fall quiet, one by one...

Her mother had told her that when she was a girl. Whenever you’re in trouble, just remember you’re your own best friend.

I think you have to be in the right place at the right time. And understand that and know when it is your time and how you react to it and how you respond to it.

The on­ly thing I know is ev­ery­thing you love will die.

The cartoon me writes the books cartoon people read in the cartoon world, because they need things to read there too.

Human beings remain constant in their methods of conduct.

Ignisecond, n.: The overlapping moment of time when the hand is locking the car door even as the brain is saying, "my keys are in there!"

Little islands are all large prisons: one cannot look at the sea without wishing for the wings of a swallow.

People confuse the subject of the joke with the target of the joke, and they're very rarely the same.

I was voted most artistic in school.

A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory.