We wait all these years to find someone who understands us, I thought, someone who accepts us as we are, someone with a wizard's power to melt stone to sunlight, who can bring us happiness in spite of trials, who can face our dragons in the night, who can transform us into the soul we choose to be. Just yesterday I found that magical Someone is the face we see in the mirror: It's us and our homemade masks.

Fail at love, and the other tests don't matter.

We [Americans] are game-playing, fun-loving creatures; we are the otters of the universe.

I'm a writer as rarely as possible, when forced by an idea too lovely to let die unwritten

A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit.

Care about understanding and before you know it, in just a few decades, you'll have a system of thinking that gives you answers whenever you ask.

Wrong turns are as important as right turns. More important, sometimes.