I love no one but you, I have discovered, but you are far away and I am here alone.

I wrote Rick before I was published, and I had no vision of it, really. It was just a story that occurred to me, and that put its little claws in my brain, and I wrote it, and I showed it to a couple people, and they all said, "This is ghastly."

Arguing with somebody is never pleasant, but sometimes it is useful and necessary to do so.

I don't know why wicked places generally look wicked. You'd think they'd look nice, to fool people, but they hardly ever do.

If we wait until we're ready, we'll be waiting for the rest of our lives.

Unless you have been very, very lucky, you have undoubtedly experienced events in your life that have made you cry. So unless you have been very, very lucky, you know that a good, long session of weeping can often make you feel better, even if your circumstances have not changed one bit.

I decided that it might be interesting to have terrible things happen to orphans over and over again.