Everybody has felt at one time or another that everyone else in the world had a better shot than they did, so when you engage that, you engage the reader, and I think you create a character that brings the reader more fully into the story.

Do you not see how strange and wonderful that is? That all history balances on an affair of the human heart?

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

It's too late to apologize for. I have already forgiven you.

Death is not the opposite of life, but the opposite of choice.

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

Anticipating pain was like enduring it twice. Why not anticipate pleasure instead?