The visions are fragmented and a dark cloud spreads like spilt ink across the pages of possible futures.

I 'ad a toy when I was little,' said Suzy. She frowned for a moment, then added, 'Can't remember what it was. It moved and made me laugh.

Maybe if I act well enough, I'll come to believe it myself.

For everyone and everything, there is a time to die. Some do not know it, or would delay it, but its truth cannot be denied. Not when you look into the stars of the ninth gate.

I have never known what to tell anybody. Except that it is better to do something than nothing, even if the cost is great.

I sometimes talk to people who think I got published because I was an editor, or because I was an agent, and I have to disabuse them of that notion. It wasn't because of my emplacement within the industry. Actually the writing came first, and the publishing came first as well.

Does the walker choose the path, or the path the walker?