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

I think you have to accept that an artist also has a relationship with his or her art and his or her fans: you are in an open relationship whether you like it or not. Give the artist room to go into the place they create (literally or metaphorically) . And love them when they can't remember where they put their keys.

I'm writing. The pages are starting to stack up. My morale is improving the more I feel like a writer.

It's not hard to own something. Or everything. You just have to know that it's yours, and then be willing to let it go.

You play your cards so close to your chest," said Shadow, "that I'm not even sure they're really cards at all.

You've a good heart. Sometimes that's enough to see you safe wherever you go. But mostly, it's not.

I learned to write by writing. I tended to do anything as long as it felt like an adventure, and to stop when it felt like work, which meant that life did not feel like work.