As a novelist, I'm endlessly fascinated by human behavior and interactions.

As for religious faith, a lack of it shouldn't stop us from doing good deeds for their own sake.

But there is one thing you must remember, if you forget all else. There is no good or evil, save in the way you see the world. There is no dark or light save in your own vision. All changes in the blink of an eyelid; yet all remains the same.

Johnny was sobbing in shuddering gasps, telling me his small tale of woe, that the world was suddently different, and that he wanted me to make it better, right now please." --Liadan's interpretation of her baby's cries.

Breath of the winds; dancing flame; peace of the earth; song of the waves.

Good and bad; shade and sunlight, there's but a hair's breath between them. It's all one in the end.

How can he do this? If you were mine, I would fight to keep you. I would die, before I let you go.