If you give a writer a pile of blank paper and say you can write anything you like on any subject you want at any length you want, you will probably never get anything at all, whereas if you have 900 words to write, and it's fiction that is somehow op-ed fiction, and it needs to tie in with Halloween . . . okay, those are my constraints, that's where I now need to start building something.

I've never known anyone who was what he or she seemed; or at least, was only what he or she seemed. People carry worlds within them.

This is a roadside attraction,' said Wednesday. 'One of the finest. Which means it is a place of power.

It's easy, there's a trick to it, you do it or you die.

Let's start a new tomorrow, today.

A world in which there are monsters, and ghosts, and things that want to steal your heart is a world in which there are angels, and dreams and a world in which there is hope.

If you were to try and pick him out of a group of boys, you’d be wrong. He’d be the other one. Over at the side. The one your eye slipped over.