"Just call in at the torturer on your way out. See when he can fit you in."
— Terry Pratchett (Wyrd Sisters: A Discworld Novel (Mass Market Paperback))

""You're no help," he told the lime. This was unfair. It was only a lime; there was nothing special about it at all. It was doing the best it could."
— Neil Gaiman (Anansi Boys)

"In the half darkness I winked to my other self, my mad dictator, and congratulated him on his droll victory. I closed my eyes and felt the warmth flowing from Shosha's head to my face. What did I have to lose? Nothing more than what everyone loses anyway."
— Isaac Bashevis Singer (Shosha: A Novel)

"The important thing about songs is that they're just like stories. They don't mean a damn unless there's people listenin' to them."
— Neil Gaiman (Anansi Boys)

"This was the writer's true doppelgänger, I thought; not some invisible imp of the perverse who watched you from the shadows, periodically appearing, dressed in your clothes and carrying your house keys, to set fire to your life; but rather the typical protagonist of your work -- Roderick Usher, Eric Waldensee, Francis Macomber, Dick Diver -- whose narratives at first reflected but in time came to determine your life's very course."
— Michael Chabon (Wonder Boys)