Grief is a healthy emotion, and it's healthy to embrace it. By accepting loss, we clarify our values and the meaning of our lives.

A fanatic is a nut who has something to believe in.

Sometimes many publishers prefer that you write the same book every time, but I have a low boredom threshold so that isn't going to happen.

I think it's perfectly just to refuse service to anyone based on behavior, but not based on race or religion.

The dead are merely the countrymen of my future.

Like all of us in this storm between birth and death, I can wreak no great changes on the world, only small changes for the better, I hope, in the lives of those I love.

Too much mystery is merely an annoyance. Too much adventure is exhausting. And a little terror goes a long way.