Be careful what you wish for. I know that for a fact. Wishes are brutal, unforgiving things. They burn your tongue the moment they're spoken and you can never take them back.

The voice that arises out of the silence is something no one can imagine until it is heard. It roars when it speaks, it lies to you and convinces you, it steals from you and leaves you without a single word of comfort.

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.

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.

It was a great escape for me and it was a way to take a break from what was going on in my own world, to go into another world.

Still anyone who trusts a serpent deserves its bite. The wise see a creature for what it is, not what it says it may be.

In "Faithful," Ray Bradbury is discussed a lot. The characters read "The Illustrated Man."