“As for Demonologies: A History, I was beginning to think it would have been better employed as a doorstop.”

“I mean, if Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at twenty-two, the history of music would have been very different. As would the history of aviation, of course.”

“If I thought this would turn into a history lesson, I would have picked a better classroom than a city street."-Grimalkin”

“But I think, personally, that it would be worse to have been alone all that time. Sure, maybe I would have protected my heart from some things, but would that really have been better? To hold myself apart because I was too scared that something might no be forever?”

“I think one is naturally impressed by anything having a beginning a middle and an ending when one is beginning writing and that it is a natural thing because when one is emerging from adolescence, which is really when one first begins writing one feels that one would not have been one emerging from adolescence if there had not been a beginning and a middle and an ending to anything.”

“had my books been any worse I would not have been invited to Hollywood and if they had been any better I would not have come.”