Surprise is where creativity comes in.

Stuff your eyes with wonder.

The home environment can undo a lot you try to do at school.

Dandelion wine. The words were summer on the tongue. The wine was summer caught and stoppered...sealed away for opening on a January day with snow falling fast and the sun unseen for weeks.

I am madness maddened when it comes to books, writers, and the great granary silos where their wits are stored.

If we try to deny the darkness in our souls then we'll become completely dark.

The novel's not organized like a screenplay. If you shot the novel, you'd have a twelve-hour movie.