There was once a young man who wished to gain his Heart’s Desire.

Empathy is a tool for building people into groups, for allowing us to function as more than self-obsessed individuals.

I once read that you die because you see the Angel of Death, and you fall in love. And you fall in love so hard your soul is sucked out through your eyes, and that's the moment of death. It's a lovely, strange old Jewish legend.

We have to get the... the thing I got... to the Angel. And then he'll tell Door about her family, and he'll tell me how to get home." Lamia looked at Hunter with delight. "And he can give you brains," she said, cheerfully, "and me a heart.

I'll agonize over sentences. Mostly because you're trying to create specific effects with sentences, and because there are a number of different voices in the book.

Parameters are the things you bounce off to create art.

Talk is free but the wise man chooses when to spend his words.