I love you. I will love you till the stars crumble, which is a less idle threat than is usual to lovers on parting.

Write what you want to read. The person you know best in this world is you. Listen to yourself. If you are excited by what you are writing, you have a much better chance of putting that excitement over to a reader.

The story is always better than your ability to write it. My belief about this is that if you ever get to the point that you think you've done a story justice, you're in the wrong business.

It is a much more straightforward thing to be a dog, and a dog's love, once given, is not reconsidered.

There are things you don't want to know you can do

He didn't look insane or inhuman. He did look uncooperative.

The train is roaring toward you and the villain is twirling his moustache and you're fussing that he's tied you to the tracks with the wrong kind of rope.