Books are like flypaper, memories cling to the printed pages better than anything else.

A thousand enemies outside the house are better than one within. Arab proverb

Because fear kills everything," Mo had once told her. "Your mind, your heart, your imagination.

Yes, I do enjoy walking at night. The world’s more to my liking then, not so loud, not so fast, not so crowded, and a good deal more mysterious.

You know, it's a funny thing about writers. Most people don't stop to think of books being written by people much like themselves. They think that writers are all dead long ago--they don't expect to meet them in the street or out shopping. They know their stories but not their names, and certainly not their faces. And most writers like it that way.

You know what they say: When people start burning books they'll soon burn human beings.

I remember the feeling. Whenever my father got so absorbed in a book that we might have been in visible I felt like taking a pair of scissors and cutting it up.