You play your cards so close to your chest," said Shadow, "that I'm not even sure they're really cards at all.

There aren't any good guys, and there aren't any bad guys. There's just us. People. Doing our best to get by.

For some folks death is release, and for others death is an abomination, a terrible thing. But in the end, I'm there for all of them.

Everybody who has ever read Sandman knows exactly what the Sandman looks like, which is more than anybody who has ever read The Catcher in the Rye can say about Holden Caufield.

As for thinking time versus writing time, well, that's up to you. But - and I wish it were otherwise - books don't get written by thinking about them, they get written by writing them. And that's when you make discoveries about what you're writing. That's when you get the happy accidents.

You are an analog girl, living in a digital world.

Fiction takes us to places that we would never otherwise go, and puts us behind eyes that are not our own.