This may be the primary purpose of dogs: to restore our sense of wonder and to help us maintain it, to make us consider that we should trust our intuition as they trust theirs and to help us realize that a thing known intuitively can be as real as anything known by material experience.

I see dead people. But, then by God, I do something about it!

we must seize life because we never know how much of it remains for us, that faith is the antidote to despair and that laughter is the music of faith.

You can't always win arguments as a writer, but you have to just go ahead and say, well, I'm doing it that way anyway.

Each book is a mind alive, a life revealed, a world awaiting exploration, but living people are all those things, as well—and more, because their stories haven’t yet been completely told.

If you have to pay the bills, and you write something you're not proud of, use a pen-name for that.

Life, Stormy says, is not about how fast you run or even with what degree of grace. It's about perseverance, about staying on your feet and slogging forward no matter what.