The sudden and abrupt removal of my all-consuming goal ... well, it was like I was a donut, and somebody had sucked all the jelly out of me. But I could stuff new jelly in there. It would just get my hands a little sticky in the process.

Our belief is often strongest when it should be weakest. That is the nature of hope.

A story doesn't live until it is imagined in someone's mind.

imaginary things were often the only items of real substance in people's lives.

I love to do what I do. So, I do work long hours.

Sometimes, son," my father said, prying my fingers free, "you have to help the heroes along.

If you are anything like me --- Clever, fond of goat cheese, and devilishly handsome --- then you have undoubtedly read many books.