“If it's fiction, then it better be true.”

“We didn’t domesticate cats. They domesticated themselves. But not totally, you know? You take a good look at any house cat, and you can tell there’s eventually going to be a day when it goes back wild, you know? When it reverts to its true nature. You fall over and die in a house with your dog, and your dog will lie down beside your dead body, maybe right on top of it, and starve to death. But a house cat will feast on your eyes as soon as its stomach starts growling.”

“We Indians really should be better liars, considering how often we've been lied to.”

“He loved her, of course, but better than that, he chose her, day after day. Choice: that was the thing.”

“If one reads enough books one has a fighting chance. Or better, one's chances of survival increase with each book one reads.”

“It's not oil that runs the world, it's shame.”

“He likes to pretend he lives inside the comic books. I guess a fake life inside a cartoon is a lot better than his real life.”