Courage is nothing more than taking one step more than you think you can.

I have never yet figured out what to do about good advice that you get, and that you know right away would help you, but that you cannot follow.

I had come to discover that "safe" was an illusion, a pretense that adults wrapped around their children- and sometimes themselves- to make the world seem comfortable. I had discovered that under that thin cover of let's-pretend, monsters and nightmares lay, and that not all of them came from places like the moonroads or the nightling cities. Some of the monsters were people we knew. People we thought we could trust.

The only place you will be accepted is the place you make for yourself.

Every writer has something to say, but those writers whose works endure have dared to say something about the things that frighten them, confuse them, challenge them, and occasionally delight them.

Adventures are only interesting once you've lived to see the end of them. Before that, they are nothing but fear, and being too cold or too hot or too wet or too hungry, and getting hurt.

Anything designed to be inoffensive isn't worth your time -- life itself is pretty offensive, ending as it does with death.