The trouble with miracles is, they don't last long.

Or maybe you’re merely uncomfortable with uncertainty. Like the rest of the human race.

Be very, very careful not to let the facts get mixed up with the truth.

Of course, all of their words for a thousand years could not fill the hole left by his mother, but they could raise a loving fence around it so he didn't keep falling in.

Every name is real. That's the nature of names.

Life is populated with scarecrows—all those people and things that seem so scary and trouble our sleep. Isn't it nice to know that most of them turn out to be made of nothing but straw?

Write what you care about. If you do that, you stand the best chance of doing your best writing.