Whether or not this story has a happy ending depends, of course, on who is reading it. Whether you are a wolf or a girl.

You have to salvage what you can, even if you're the one who buried it in the first place.

Everyone knows that wizards are pigheaded and come to bad ends.

Remember, when you don’t know what to do, it never hurts to play Scrabble. It’s like reading the I Ching or tea leaves.

A monster. You and your friends, all of you. Pretty monsters. It's a stage all girls go through. If you're lucky you get through it without doing any permanent damage to yourself or anyone else.

Look. All books are weird when you think about it.... It goes without saying that real life is also weird.

Most of My Friends are two-thirds water

I don't think I'm cut out for a job where you have to look professionally tidy. I prefer working in my pajamas and taking showers after lunch.

Life is a series of sudden disappearances, leave-takings without the proper goodbyes.

The beloved may be treacherous, greasy-headed and given to evil habits, or else it can be a man in his late forties who works too much, or it can be an alarm clock.

The zombies were like Canadians, in that they looked enough like real people at first, to fool you.

God would not have brought you to this place to leave you here without the archangel's help.

I can so clearly distinguish between the criminal and his crime

Law and Order are the medicine of the body politic and when the body politic gets sick, medicine must be administered.

The Patriots deflated balls are but an allegory for America's deflated balls in dealings with Putin, the Mullahs in Iran, and Islamic terrorists.

What Democrats call 'nuanced,' most people refer to as 'stupidity.'

It's a brave new world.

He who knows himself well is mean and abject in his own sight, and takes no delight in the vain praise of men.

No religion but blasphemes a little.

Many people who order their lives rightly in all other ways are kept in poverty by their lack of gratitude.

There is no substitute for a local newspaper that is doing its job.