Say what you will to the force that governs the universe. Perhaps we'll call it into being, and it will yet love us as we love it.

I claim Dickens as a mentor. He's my teacher. He's one of my driving forces.

There may be writing groups where people meet but it's occasional. You really do it all at your own computer or your own typewriter by yourself.

I felt ravaged, and with both hands in a fantasy I reached out for her figure as we ran together through the meadow which belonged only to us and to which these others could never be admitted."Oh, inocent love," she said even as she drank from me, "oh, innocent innocent love."

Anger is too pathetic. Anger is as weak as fear.

Without memory there can be no insight. Without love, there can be no appreciation.

Let the spirits witness: for theirs is the knowledge of the future - both what it would be, and what I will: You are the Queen of the Damned, that's what you are! Evil is your only destiny. But at your greatest hour, it is I who will defeat you. Look well on my face. It is I who will bring you down.