I hate New Year's Eve. One more chance to remember that you haven't yet done what you wanted. And to pretend it doesn't matter.

Of course. You get everything from books.

How poetic you are," she said. "I've a notion that poetry is the highest form of self-deception.

Growth and change were viewed as reactions to conditions met

Just follow that one road the whole time!... I hope they don't get lost, I'm so bad at giving directions.

Starlight and comet tails burned the tips of endless grass below into hammered silver. Like thousands of tapers in the chapel, just blown out but still glowing. If one could drown in the grass...it might be the best way to die.

I was just about to begin writing Mirror Mirror, within about a week of it, when September 11, 2001 happened. I found myself incapable of caring about fiction-making for a number of months.