When I journal, I write about images that I've seen that I think might make good stories. I write about things that I hear that I think I can turn into a story. I write about the story that I'm working on and where I think it might go.

I was a kid who lived to read. It was the primary pleasure of my existence. It's still one of the primary pleasures of my existence. It's where I draw my sustenance.

Pea was aware suddenly of how fragile her heart was, how much darkness was inside it, fighting, always, with the light. She did not like the rat. She would neverlike the rat, but she knew what she must do to save her own heart.

You can always trust a dog that likes peanut butter.

Understand, I had absolutely no interest in writing; I wanted to be a Writer.

You are down there alone, the stars seemed to say to him. And we are up here, in our constellations, together.

There's a Buddhist precept that the only thing you deserve is the chance to do the work, and I've been given the chance to do the work.