Time may heal all wounds, but it does not erase the scars.

Write, write, and write some more. Think of writing as a muscle that needs lots of exercise.

If you love a waist, you waste a love.

Fish are not the best authority on water.

Storytelling is our oldest form of remembering the promises we have made to one another and to our various gods, and the promises given in return; it is a way of recording our human emotions and desires and taboos.

Fairy Tales always have a happy ending.' That depends... on whether you are Rumpelstiltskin or the Queen.

And for adults, the world of fantasy books returns to us the great words of power which, in order to be tamed, we have excised from our adult vocabularies. These words are the pornography of innocence, words which adults no longer use with other adults, and so we laugh at them and consign them to the nursery, fear masking as cynicism. These are the words that were forged in the earth, air, fire, and water of human existence, and the words are: Love. Hate. Good. Evil. Courage. Honor. Truth.