We save our lives in such unlikely ways.

People believe, thought Shadow. It's what people do. They believe, and then they do not take responsibility for their beliefs; they conjure things, and do not trust the conjuration. People populate the darkness; with ghost, with gods, with electrons, with tales. People imagine, and people believe; and it is that rock solid belief, that makes things happen.

To be Despair. It is a portrait. Only close your eyes and feel.

Make glorious and fantastic mistakes.

It's a wonderful thing, as a writer, to be given parameters and walls and barriers.

On the whole, stories don't write themselves.

Not knowing everything is all that makes it OK, sometimes.