He was painfully shy, which, as is often the manner of the painfully shy, he overcompensated for by being too loud at the wrong times.

Goodbyes are overrated.

Call no man happy, said Shadow, until he is dead

I believe that stories are incredibly important, possibly in ways we don't understand, in allowing us to make sense of our lives, in allowing us to escape our lives, in giving us empathy and in creating the world that we live in.

"Some things may change," said Wednesday, abruptly. "People, however... People stay the same."

Have you ever had one of those days when something just seems to be trying to tell you somebody?

Most people can start a short story or a novel. If you're a writer, you can finish them. Finish enough of them, and you may be good enough to be publishable.