Leave no stone unturned. Deeply explore the beauty of your life.

It is going to take more than just a couple of good-hearted souls to raise this child. It will take a graveyard.

Sexton: I think the whole world's gone mad. Death: Uh-uh. It's always like this. You probably just don't get out enough.

Only the phoenix rises and does not descend. And everything changes. And nothing is truly lost.

Writing is flying in dreams. When you remember. When you can. When it works. It's that easy.

October knew, of course, that the action of turning a page, of ending a chapter or of shutting a book, did not end a tale. Having admitted that, he would also avow that happy endings were never difficult to find: "It is simply a matter," he explained to April, "of finding a sunny place in a garden, where the light is golden and the grass is soft; somewhere to rest, to stop reading, and to be content.

The moment that you feel that just possibly you are walking down the street naked...that's the moment you may be starting to get it right.