If a storyteller worried about the facts - my dear Lucian, how could he ever get at the truth?

Any fool can tell a story. Take a few odds and ends of things that happen to you, dress them up, shuffle them about, add a dash of excitement, a little color, and there you have it.

She has given you something of value: the truth in her heart.

Keep out of this, " Lucian said. "I'm not smiting anybody.""You're showing mercy." Catch-a-Tick nodded. "That's heroic, too. But not as good as smiting.

The feeling of freedom, driving into scenery as green and lush as a postcard of Ireland was close to bliss.

O death where is thy sting? O grave where is thy victory?

We've taken a show about destruction and turned it into a show about construction.

Naturally, I'm misanthropic. But the Negronis are helping considerably.

They danced by the light of the moon.

the object of a new year is not that we should have a new year, but rather that we should have a new soul.

New York was the last place that my movies caught on. I didn't make underground movies in New York, and in the 1960s, they were very snobby about that, because the whole scene was here.

If you can focus the energy into something valuable, put that into work ethic.

I was told I make intelligent comics, and then I made a comic about a horse that pooped.

The great advantage of a novel is you can put in whatever comes into your head - it has the same shape as the human brain.