We owe it to each other to tell stories.

I'm sure there's an alternate universe where I got to become a pulpy science fiction writer.

I can believe things that are true and things that aren't true and I can believe things where nobody knows if they're true or not.

Books make great gifts because they have whole worlds inside of them.

Mirrors,' she said, 'are never to be trusted.

It's just I might get distracted, and I get lost kind of easily, and sometimes I have really bad days...when, you know, I just want to hide or scream or bleed or something, and...all that...

Like some kind of particularly tenacious vampire the short story refuses to die, and seems at this point in time to be a wonderful length for our generation.