And I loved this moment for all it's pain...We seemed for a moment like two parts of the same thing.

Remember always, he said, that nothing is as precious to us as the magnificent gift of life. Let the moon and the stars always remind you of this-that though we are tiny creatures in this universe, we are filled with life.

Protect your voice and your vision. If going on the Internet and reading Internet reviews is bad for you, don’t do it. … Do what gets you to write and not what blocks you. … Don’t take any guff off anybody.

You can look at the New York Times Bestseller List and you can be pretty sure that the writers on that list don't know each other very well.

I don't believe in anything and that makes me stronger than you think

But the sky was never quite the same shade of blue again.

Nothing in all the world is so nonsensical and contradictory, save mortals, that is, who live in the grip of the superstitions of the past.