I don't abandon stories once I've started working on them. Once I sit down and start a story, I'll be damned if I'm going to give up on it. But I do reject most of the ideas for stories that I come up with.
When you're Dead ... you stay up all night long.
You should never poison a witch.
Life is a series of sudden disappearances, leave-takings without the proper goodbyes.
Our eyes are always blind when they view the future.
When I'm up for an award, there are usually two or three other things on the ballot that I like better than my own fiction.