What I'd like to be is a unique writer who's different from everybody else. I want to be a writer who tells stories unlike other writers'.

The library was like a second home. Or maybe more like a real home, more than the place I lived in. By going every day I got to know all the lady librarians who worked there. They knew my name and always said hi. I was painfully shy, though, and could barely reply.

What a terrible thing it is to wound someone you really care for and to do it so unconsciously.

One impossible day, of an impossible month, of an impossible year.

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.

If there's any guy crazy enough to attack me, I'm going to show him the end of the world -- close up. I'm going to let him see the kingdom come with his own eyes. I'm going to send him straight to the southern hemisphere and let the ashes of death rain all over him and the kangaroos and the wallabies.

Open your eyes, train your ears, use your head. If a mind you have, then use it while you can.