Some fates are guaranteed, no matter who tries to intervene.

Hawthorne has given us a tradition that some people refer to as Yankee Magic Realism, and I do think there is a certain quality to the landscape that definitely leads into the dark woods.

You cannot dispute the ridiculous. You cannot argue reasonably with evil.

Any institution becomes a community - whether it's a high school or a boarding school or a publishing company or a small town where everybody knows certain things about people.

I wasn't quite as certain that I knew her soul. When it came right down to it, I wasn't sure she knew me either.

He fell in love with the way she closed her eyes, long before he fell in love with her.

Every time I finish a book, I forget everything I learned writing it - the information just disappears out of my head