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.

I don't procrastinate because I love the English language and the process of storytelling, and I'm always curious to see what will come to me next. If you procrastinate a lot, you might be one who loves having written, but doesn't so much like writing.

I can do what I need to do. I can get where I want to go, no matter how hard it is.

The less depth a belief system has, the greater the fervency with which its adherents embrace it. The most vociferous, the most fanatical are those whose cobbled faith is founded on the shakiest grounds.

In real life during the last decade of the twentieth century, Rumpelstiltskin would probably get the queen's daughter. He would no doubt addict her to heroin, turn her out as a prostitute, confiscate her earnings, beat her for pleasure, hack her to pieces, and escape justice by claiming that society's intolerance for bad-tempered, evil-minded trolls had driven him temporarily insane.

Vladimir Nabokov said the two great evils of the 20th century were Marx and Freud. He was absolutely correct.

One door away from heaven And the key is ours to lose. One door away from heaven But oh, the entry dues.