What year these events transpired is of no consequence. Where they occured is not important. The time is always, and the place is everywhere.

I've had good publishers and bad publishers, and you've got to learn when the advice is sensible and when it's not.

Every writer has his own voice. Other than that I'm always trying to do change-ups and publishers haven't always been happy about that.

Fear is a hammer, and when the people are beaten finally to the conviction that their existence hangs by a frayed thread, they will be led where they need to go.

In the real world as in dreams nothing is quite what it seems. -The Book of Counted Sorrows

the worst happens when you least expect it

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.