How DARE the villainous cads be as clever as the heroes.

We're none of us quite so sure of our place in the world that we can't be rocked off our feet by bad times. It's the getting back up again that counts. Not that you fall, but getting back up again counts for more in the long run.

... sometimes good people [are] helpless... terrible things happen... to good people... there [are] sad endings as well as happy ones.

I always work from an outline, so I know all the of the broad events and some of the finer details before I begin writing the book.

If they projected the fact that they are dangerous any harder, there would be little puddles of "danger" on the floor around them. Look, it's "danger", don't step in it!

Some must be warriors, that others may live in peace.

If only. Those must be the two saddest words in the world.