While I like people, I do also like being alone in a room and seeing what you can do with a particular theme or subject.

Fate cannot be sidestepped or outrun.

Imagine that you are more than nothing. Evil made you, but you are no more evil than a child unborn. If you want, if you seek, if you hope, who is to say that your hope might not be answered?

I have a sofa on which I never nap, big windows with an ocean view that I rarely see because I keep the pleated shades down at all times while working. I know I'm a potential slacker, so I don't tempt myself.

That was interesting, riding in the trunk," Milo said, "but I wouldn't want to do it again.

I've a long list of things I don't know how I've done, but I've done them. In the end, it's always about perseverance.

The answer to the mystery of existence is the love you shared sometimes so imperfectly, and when the loss wakes you to the deeper beauty of it, to the sanctity of it, you can't get off your knees for a long time, you're driven to your knees not by the weight of the loss but by gratitude for what preceded the loss.