The best way to show people true things is from a direction that they had not imagined the truth coming.

May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness.

It's one thing to want money, but if you find yourself choking on a coin as you wake, the money is slightly less desirable.

People talk about books that write themselves, and it's a lie. Books don't write themselves. It takes thought and research and backache and notes and more time and more work than you'd believe.

Where does contagion end and art begin?

I hope you'll make mistakes. If you're making mistakes, it means you're out there doing something.

Do not lose hope — what you seek will be found. Trust ghosts. Trust those that you have helped to help you in their turn. Trust dreams. Trust your heart, and trust your story. (from 'Instructions')