Make your own worlds. Make your own laws. Make your own creations, your own star systems. Don't feel answerable to anyone, or as though you have to create after some preordained model. You don't have to write like myself, or King or Anne Rice: be yourself. Nothing is more wonderful than discovering a new voice, particularly if it happens to be your own.

Often people who are wonderful with animals aren't always terribly good with human beings.

She's...just a girl, you know. Like most girls: something and nothing.

We burn so hard, but we shed so little light; it makes us crazy and sad.

Life is short And pleasures few And holed the ship And drowned the crew But o! But o! How very blue the sea is.

How many human eyes...had snatched glimpses of their secret anatomies, down the passage of years?

After all, where can the glorious, the goofy, and the god-like stand shoulder to shoulder?