"Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book."
"I hadn’t been in proper school in three years. My parents were my two best friends. My third best friend was an author who did not know I existed."
"I'm in love with you, and I'm not in the business of denying myself the simple pleasure of saying true things."
"Some infinities are bigger than other infinities."
"It's a metaphor, see: You put the killing thing right between your teeth, but you don't give it the power to do its killing."
"Neither novels or their readers benefit from any attempts to divine whether any facts hide inside a story. Such efforts attack the very idea that made-up stories can matter, which is sort of the foundational assumption of our species."