... Baggott enjoys living on the knife edge between hilarity and heartbreak and that makes her a writer after my own heart.

I was the one who did come through that door. You were the one she was waiting for.

You can't possibly judge your ability to control something until you've experienced the extremes of its capabilities. Do you understand?

Sleep is over-rated. Have you ever noticed how it's always recommended to people anybody with half a brain can see need to wake up?

I'm not an easy man. I can be an entertaining one, though it's been my experience that most people don't want to be entertained. They want to be comforted.

A lot of my characters in all of my books have a self-destructive urge. They'll do precisely the thing that they know is wrong, take a perverse delight in doing the wrong thing.

Stories worked much the same way . . . A false note at the beginning was much more costly than one nearer the end because early errors were part of the foundation.