But if you couldn't do everything, did that mean you did nothing?

There are kinds of action, for good or ill, that lie so far outside the boundaries of normal behavior that they force us, in acknowledging that they have occurred, to restructure our own understanding of reality. We have to make room for them.

I have always argued, in a good novel, interesting things happen to interesting people.

What mortal knew the way their fate line would run?

One didn't stop to talk with creatures from one's nightmares.

Liu Fang is a truly gifted, world-famous player of the pipa and the guzheng, classical Chinese stringed instruments.

She had been a solitary child, and then solitary as a woman, drawn into an orbit of her own that took her away from others, even those who would be her friends.