If writing novels is like planting a forest, then writing short stories is more like planting a garden.

I've always liked libraries. They're quiet and full of books and full of knowledge.

I was feeling lonely without her, but the fact that I could feel lonely at all was consolation. Loneliness wasn't such a bad feeling. It was like the stillness of the pin oak after the little birds had flown off.

One heart is not connected to another through harmony alone. They are, instead, linked deeply through their wounds

Silence, I discover, is something you can actually hear.

I was reduced to pure concept. My flesh had dissolved; my form had dissipated. I floated in space. Liberated of my corporeal being, but without dispensation to go anywhere else.I was adrift in the void. Somewhere across the fine line separating nightmare from reality.

I'd be smiling and chatting away, and my mind would be floating around somewhere else, like a balloon with a broken string.