It's not irrelevant, those moments of connection, those places where fiction saves your life. It's the most important thing there is.

Write. Finish things. Get them published. Write something else while you're waiting for someone to publish the first thing.

Does it make you feel big to make a little boy cry?

Is there any person in the world who does not dream? Who does not contain within them worlds unimagined?

When angels go bad they are worse than anyone else. Remember Lucifer used to be an angel.

The boy had the towering arrogance only seen in the greatest of artists and all nine-year-old boys.

The biggest difference between England and America is that England has history, while America has geography.