I write two pages - that's all I write. It takes me about an hour. I've learned that's all I'm capable of and to push myself beyond that is foolhardy. It's a very delicate thing, and I will not abuse it. So I write two pages, then I get up from the computer.

The world is dark, and light is precious. Come closer, dear reader. You must trust me. I am telling you a story.

My goal is two pages a day, five days a week. I never want to write, but I'm always glad that I have done it. After I write, I go to work at the bookstore.

We must ask ourselves these questions as often as we dare. How will the world change if we do not question it?

Once upon a time," he said out loud to the darkness. He said these words because they were the best, the most powerful words that he knew and just the saying of them comforted him.

There are so many difficult things and stories can make them palatable. That's the way I have always felt.

Life was so short; so many beautiful things slipped away.