“This book was written using 100% recycled words.”

“Only in our dreams are we free. The rest of the time we need wages.”

“Everywhere's been where it is ever since it was first put there. It's called geography.”

“Someone has to do it. It's all very well calling for eye of newt, but do you mean Common, Spotted or Great Crested? Which eye, anyway? Will tapioca do just as well? If we substitute egg white will ...”

“It is true that words have power, and one of the things they are able to do is get out of someones mouth before the speaker has the chance to stop them.”

“Gods prefer simple, vicious games, where you Do Not Achieve Transcendence but Go Straight To Oblivion; a key to the understanding of all religion is that a god's idea of amusement is Snakes and Lad...”

“To create art with all the passion in one's soul is to live art with all the beauty in one's heart.”

“art is risk made visible”

“Eleanor was right. She never looked nice. She looked like art, and art wasn't supposed to look nice; it was supposed to make you feel something.”

“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”

“If I am going to be drownedif I am going to be drownedif I am going to be drowned, why, in the name of the seven mad gods who rule the sea, was I allowed to come thus far and contemplate sand and t...”

“I'm an Earth ecstatic, and my creed is simple: All life is sacred, life loves life, and we are capable of improving our behavior toward one another. As basic as that is, for me it's also tonic and ...”

“Never trust a mirror,' his mother had told him. 'They never tell the truth unless you make them.”

“You're an intensely attractive woman. You do know that, don't you?" To her silence, he replied, "You'd believe me if you could see your”

“Both within the family and without, our sisters hold up our mirrors: our images of who we are and of who we can dare to be.”