“The mad rarely know that they are mad. It's the rest of the world, I think, that seems insane to them.”

“Think of every fairy-tale villainess you've ever heard of. Think of the wicked witches, the evil queens, the mad enchantresses. Think of the alluring sirens, the hungry ogresses, the savage she-beasts. Think of them and remember that somewhere, sometime, they've all been real.Mab gave them lessons.”

“I'm dealing with a lot of scary things. I think you have to react to them. And you either laugh at them or you go insane.”

“At the moment I was mad enough to chew up nails and spit out paper clips.”

“All of those faeries and duels and mad queens and so on, and no one quoted old Billy Shakespeare. Not even once.”

“You're mad," the fallen angel said."Get me some Alka Seltzer and I'll foam at the mouth, too.”

“I know it's not thematically in tune with my new job and all, but I find it effective. Build a man a fire and he's warm for a day," I say. "But set a man on fire and he's warm for the rest of his life. Tao of Pratchett. I live by it.”