I know that the way to be a really successful writer is to write the same kind of book over and over again. Find the kind of thing that people like and just write one of those over and over again. I don't do that. I just keep doing different things.

Short stories are tiny windows into other worlds and other minds and dreams. They are journeys you can make to the far side of the universe and still be back in time for dinner.

Hearts may break, but hearts are the toughest of muscles, able to pump for a lifetime, seventy times a minute, and scarcely falter along the way. Even dreams, the most delicate and intangible of things, can prove remarkably difficult to kill.

There are stories you build and there are stories you construct; then there are the stories that you hack out of rock removing all the things that are not the story.

If you are protected from dark things then you have no protection of, knowledge of, or understanding of dark things when they show up.

But standing in that hallway, it was all coming back to me. Memories were waiting at the edges of things, beckoning to me.

When you dream, sometimes you remember. When you wake, you always forget.