“When rivers flooded, when fire fell from the sky, what a fine place the library was, the many rooms, the books. With luck, no one found you. How could they!--when you were off to Tanganyika in '98, Cairo in 1812, Florence in 1492!?”

“His library was a fine dark place bricked with books, so anything could happen there and always did. All you had to do was pull a book from the shelf and open it and suddenly the darkness was not so dark anymore.”

“When the stars were right, They could plunge from world to world through the sky; but when the stars were wrong, They could not live.”

“When you steal from the library, you are preventing anyone else from reading that book, and the very notion makes me want to drop you in the Void.”

“Everyone feels embarrassed, but when you laugh it off, it's fine.”

“When I found somebody who I fell in love with, it made me feel different than I felt the rest of the day. It was electrifying. That's what inspired the 'Off to the Races' melodies. That's one of the times when you're feeling electrified by someone else and they make you happy to be alive.”

“Fine… a word that you said when someone asked how you were but didn't really care to know the truth.”

“When you start separating people from their rivers, what have you got? Bureaucracy!”

“My bodyguard was mowing the lawn in a pink bikini when the body fell from the sky.”

“That's what birthdays were. Days when you found out where you stood. Who was on your side and who wasn't. Nothing to do with how old you were.”