When you love something, you have to make sure it loves you back, or you'll bring about no end of trouble chasing it.

That is like throwing two virgins into a bed. Enthusiasm, passion, and ignorance are not a good combination. Someone is likely to get hurt.

I learned to love the feel of good words.

If you can find someone like that, someone who you can hold and close your eyes to the world with, then you're lucky.

It's the questions we can't answer that teach us the most. They teach us how to think.

The cost of a loaf is a simple thing, and so a loaf is often sought, but some things are past valuing: laughter, land, and love are never bought.

It's hard for a newbie author to get noticed.