If you are protected from dark things then you have no protection of, knowledge of, or understanding of dark things when they show up.

Most of what I want to try to do is continue to go places with fiction that I've never gone before, and tell stories I've never told before, and one of the problems you rapidly discover about fans is what fans want is the last thing they liked. They want more of that.

Style is made up of whatever an author can't avoid doing.

People take on the shapes of the songs and the stories that surround them, especially if they don't have their own song.

We make choices. No one else can live our lives for us. And we must confront and accept the consequences of our actions.

In reality the world is made of thousands of groups of about five hundred people, all of whom will spend their lives bumping into each other, trying to avoid each other, and discovering each other in the same unlikely teashop in Vancouver. There is an unavoidability to this process. It's not even coincidence. It's just the way the world works, with no regard for individuals or propriety.

She says nothing at all, but simply stares upward into the dark sky and watches, with sad eyes, the slow dance of the infinite stars.