Fear is contagious. You can catch it.

We get to experience the same thing in very different ways with different parts of ourselves.

It is going to take more than just a couple of good-hearted souls to raise this child. It will take a graveyard.

M is for magic. All the letters are, if you put them together properly. You can make magic with them, and dreams, and, I hope, even a few surprises.

If not for Death, they’d be content to simply exist, but with Death, well, their lives will have meaning — a boundary beyond which the living cannot cross.

[D]on't ever apologize to an author for buying something in paperback, or taking it out from a library (that's what they're there for. Use your library). Don't apologize to this author for buying books second hand, or getting them from bookcrossing or borrowing a friend's copy. What's important to me is that people read the books and enjoy them, and that, at some point in there, the book was bought by someone. And that people who like things, tell other people. The most important thing is that people read.

I loved the fact that I was suddenly no longer dependent on whether a store took out an ad in the right place, or on the word on the street.