No story lives unless someone wants to listen. So thank you, all of you.

I had an old typewriter and a big idea.

This liberating discovery enables me to proceed without any fear that I might inadvertently influence you to abandon promising careers in business, law or politics for the giddy delights of becoming a gay wizard.

The only reason to delay at this point was because the immediate prospect was so deeply uninviting.

If it's a good book, anyone will read it. I'm totally unashamed about still reading things I loved in my childhood.

Why had he never appreciated the miracle that he was, brain and nerve and bounding heart?

Her voice was now so shrill only bats would be able to hear it soon, but she had reached a level of indignation that rendered her temporarily speechless.