If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.

The happy ending is hardly important, though we may be glad its there. The real joy is knowing that if you felt the trouble in the story, your kingdom isnt dead.

By the 6th grade I stopped doing ordinary things in front of people. It had been ordinary to sing, kids are singing all the time when they are little, but then something happens. It's not that we stop singing. I still sang. I just made sure I was alone when I did it. And I made sure I never did it accidentally. That thing we call 'bursting into song.' I believe this happens to most of us. We are still singing, but secretly and all alone.

You can't know what a book is about until the very end. This is true of a book we're reading or writing.

People think that whatever I put into strips has happened to me in my life.

When we finish a book, why do we hold it in both hands and gaze at it as if it were somehow alive?

It is true that I am a person with black pockets of evil and hatred in my heart. There are underground places inside of me