All of my writing is God-given.

The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance - the idea that anything is possible.

Recreate the world in your own image and make it better for your having been here.

Remember, with writing, what you’re looking for is just one person to come up and tell you, 'I love you for what you do.'

I have two rules in life - to hell with it, whatever it is, and get your work done.

I felt a bit bookish, cut off from life.

There where hundreds of graves. There where hundreds of women. There were hundreds of daughters. There were hundreds of sons. And hundreds upon hundreds upon thousands of candles. The whole graveyard was one swarm of candleshine as if a population of fireflies had heard of a Grand Conglomeration and had flown here to settle in and flame upon the stones and light the brown faces and the dark eyes and the black hair.