Men of passion and vision are often seen as mad.

When you spring to an idea, and decide it is truth, without evidence, you blind yourself to other possibilities.

But a living is not a life.

One must plan for the future and anticipate the future without fearing the future.

I told you I set no limits on my love for you. I don't. Yet I have never expected you to offer me your body. It was the whole of your heart, all for myself, that I sought. Even though I've never had a right to it. For you gave it away ere ever you saw me.

I began attempting to write for children under the mistaken assumption that writing for children was easy.

If a man does not die of a wound, then it heals in some fashion, and so it is with loss. From the sharp pain of immediate berevement, both the Prince and I passed into the gray days of numb bewilderment and waiting. So grief has always seemed to me, a time of waiting not for the hurt to pass, but to become accustomed to it.