“The problems with success, frankly, are infinitely preferable to the problems of failure.”

“I am selfish, private and easily bored. Will this be a problem?”

“I believe that all men are just overgrown boys with deep problems communicating.”

“Now, Anansi stories, they have wit and trickery and wisdom. Now, all over the world, all of the people they aren't just thinking of hunting and being hunted anymore. Now they're starting to think their way out of problems--sometimes thinking their way into worse problems.”

“She's realized the real problem with stories -- if you keep them going long enough, they always end in death.”

“It has occasionally been remarked upon that it is as easy to overlook something large and obvious as it is to overlook something small and niggling, and that the large things one overlooks often cause problems.”

“All Bette's stories have happy endings. That's because she knows where to stop. She's realized the real problem with stories—if you keep them going long enough, they always end in death.”