"Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke."
— F. Scott Fitzgerald

"Never argue with a librarian; they know too much."
— Carole Nelson Douglas (Cat in a Red Hot Rage)

"Reading one book is like eating one potato chip."
— Diane Duane (So You Want to Be a Wizard)

"Footsteps in the snow
suggest where you have been,
point to where you were going:
but when they suddenly vanish,
never dismiss the possibility
of flight..."
— Diane Duane

"I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity."
— Edgar Allan Poe

"We loved with a love that was more than love."
— Edgar Allan Poe

"Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars."
— Kahlil Gibrán

"Life is like a prism. What you see depends on how you turn the glass."
— Jonathan Kellerman

"The more one judges, the less one loves."
— Honoré de Balzac

"Books... are like lobster shells, we surround ourselves with 'em, then we grow out of 'em and leave 'em behind, as evidence of our earlier stages of development."
— Dorothy L. Sayers

"I'm not a very good writer, but I'm an excellent rewriter."
— James A. Michener

"God bless the Reference Librarians"
— James Lee Burke

"Interstate highways are the veins and arteries by which crime circulates in America. Serial killers seem to float through them like blood cells, sometimes fast, sometimes slow. Crimes committed along interstate highways ought to be considered extraterritorially, apart from the normal rules of geography, and separate from a state's good name. These huge highways form a kind of fifty-first state of their own, a state whose flower is the deadly nightshade and whose state bird is the vulture."
— William R. Maples (Dead Men Do Tell Tales: The Strange and Fascinating Cases of a Forensic Anthropologist)

"I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for the health of the chickens. "
— Isaac Bashevis Singer

"If you can't fix it, you have to stand it."
— Annie Proulx

"A desk is a dangerous place from which to view the world."
— John le Carré

"Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored."
— Aldous Huxley

"When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in confederacy against him."
— Jonathan Swift

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
— Arthur C. Clarke (Profiles of the Future: An Inquiry into the Limits of the Possible)

"I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying."
— Oscar Wilde

"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."
— Oscar Wilde (Lady Windermere's Fan)

"Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much."
— Oscar Wilde

"Life is a jest of the Gods and there is no justice. You must learn to laugh… or else you'll weep yourself to death. - Merlin"
— Bernard Cornwell (The Winter King: A Novel of Arthur)