“Hercules, huh? That guy was like the Starbucks of Ancient Greece. Everywhere you turn--there he is.”
"Ever had a flying burrito hit you? Well, it's a deadly projectile, right up there with cannonballs and grenades."
"To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.”
“Secrets have power. And that power diminishes when they are shared, so they are best kept and kept well. Sharing secrets, real secrets, important ones, with even one other person, will change them. Writing them down is worse, because who can tell how many eyes might see them inscribed on paper, no matter how careful you might be with it. So it's really best to keep your secrets when you have them, for their own good, as well as yours.” 
“Most maidens are perfectly capable of rescuing themselves in my experience, at least the ones worth something, in any case.” 
“The most difficult thing to read is time. Maybe because it changes so many things.” 
“Stories have a way of changing faces. They are unruly things, undisciplined, given to delinquency and the throwing of erasers. This is why we must close them up into thick, solid books, so they cannot get out and cause trouble.” 
“I'm not lost, because I haven't any idea where to go that I might get lost on the way to. I'd like to get lost, because then I'd know where I was going, you see.” 
“Those were all big words, to be sure, but as has been said, September read often, and liked it best when words did not pretend to be simple, but put on their full armor and rode out with colors flying.”
“That's what a map is, you know. Just a memory. Just a wish to go back home - someday, somehow.”