“I am like a small creature swallowed whole by a monster, she thought, and the monster feels my tiny little movements inside.”

“I loved the idea of a girl going into a dark alley, and a monster comes, and then she just aces him. It’s like, you want to see the tiny person suddenly take control. God, my whole career is basically about that!”

“Someday, he thought, I would like to meet a monster who looked like a monster.”

“She knew she shouldn't feel that way about a monster, but right then, she wanted nothing more than a monster of her very own.”

“My friend is going to save a little girl from monsters. I am going with him. That's what friends do.”

“Godzilla is an outrageous monster that is played by an outstanding guy! I am a little short, but in my heart burns the spirit of the samurai.”

“I have lived in the monster and I know its insides; and my sling is the sling of David.”

“But as soon as any of us dies, there is only the monster left. What I had been pursuing was not Belham but the monster called Belham. And what my whole journey had taught me was precisely what sort of monster it was: it was made, as all such monsters are, of contradiction, supposition, miscalculation, impossibility, and ignorance.”

“… throw roses into the abyss and say: 'here is my thanks to the monster who didn't succeed in swallowing me alive.”

“He told me about his monster. His sounded just like mine without quite so much mascara. When people shine a little light on their monster, we find out how similar most of our monsters are.”