The Goddess does not shower her gifts on those who reject them.

There's no "magic secret"; writing is like everything else; ten percent inspiration or talent, and ninety percent hard work. Persistence; keeping at it till you get there. As Agnes de Mille said, it means working every day—bored, tired, weary, or with a fever of a hundred and two.

I know all about endings. It is beginnings that elude me.

Without a dream to light your way, the world is a very dark place.

I cannot regret it. They tell us in the temple that true joy is found only in freedom from the Wheel that is death and rebirth, that we must come to despise earthly joy and suffering, and long only for the peace of the presence of the eternal. Yet I love this life on Earth, Morgan, and I love you with a love that is stronger than death, and if sin is the price of binding us together, life after life across the ages, then I will sin joyfully and without regret, so that it brings me back to you, my beloved!

The road that is built in hope is more pleasant to the traveler than the road built in despair, even though they both lead to the same destination.

If you listen to dogs barking you will go deaf without learning anything.