Longing is not always a reciprocal thing.

He was reading from the beginning so that he could get to the end, where the reader was assured that the knight and the fair maiden lived together happily ever after.

Mercy Watson is pure fun for me as a writer, because I think of her as kind of sorbet - a palate cleanser - between larger works. It's always a relief to come back to her.

The only control you have over a movie is whether or not you decide to sell the rights.

Reader, do you think it is a terrible thing to hope when there is really no reason to hope at all? Or is it (as the soldier said about happiness) something that you might just as well do, since,in the end, it really makes no difference to anyone but you?

There is nothing sweeter in this sad world than the sound of someone you love calling your name.

This is a wonderful joke to play upon a prisoner, to promise forgiveness.