I hate New Year's Eve. One more chance to remember that you haven't yet done what you wanted. And to pretend it doesn't matter.

— Gregory Maguire

I have always felt like a pawn... My skin color's been a curse, my missionary parents made me sober and intense, my school days brought me up against political crimes against Animals, my love life imploded, and my lover died, and if I had any life's work of my own, I haven't found it yet, except in animal husbandry, if you could call it that.

— Gregory Maguire

I like the sound of words, but I don't ever really expect my slow, slanted impression of the world to change by what I read.

— Gregory Maguire

I like to think I'm a pretty good-natured guy and pretty civil and probably not ever truly guilty in any serious way of any legal infractions.

— Gregory Maguire

I may not be sure if monsters exist, but I’d rather live my life in doubt than be persuaded by a real experience of one.

— Gregory Maguire

Indeed, she often wondered if she were dead, or dying from the inside out, and that was the root of her calm, the reason she could surrender her character.

— Gregory Maguire

In order to remember who you are, you have to have known it in the first place.

— Gregory Maguire

In the end, all disguises must drop.

— Gregory Maguire

Isn't that funny, that deity is passé but the attributes and implications of deity linger--

— Gregory Maguire

It appears history is going to keep happening, despite our hopes for retirement.

— Gregory Maguire