I advise those who want to become writers to study veterinary medicine, which is easier. You don't want to be a writer unless you have no choice - and if you have no choice, good luck to you.

Perhaps it is a human thing, to look upon such beauty and fail to encompass it.

The story is always better than your ability to write it.

Charlie is one of the big good guys in my universe.

One doesn't generally look into mirrors when one is especially angry; one has better things to do, like pace the floor or throw things.

But the world turns, and even legends change; and somewhere there is a border, and sometime, perhaps, someone will decide to cross it, however well guarded its thorns may be.

What was she to say? "The prodigal has returned? The mutineer wishes to be reinstated? The subordinate, having gone to a great deal of trouble to prove her commander wrong, has come back and promises to be a good little subordinate hereafter, or at least until next time?