Language upon a silvered tongue affords enchantment enough.

In the end, you write the book that grabs you by the throat and demands to be written.

But there's one thing we must all be clear about: terrorism is not the pursuit of legitimate goals by some sort of illegitimate means. Whatever the murderers may be trying to achieve, creating a better world certainly isn't one of their goals. Instead they are out to murder innocent people.

One either loves, or waits for love, or banishes love for good. That is the full range of possible choices.

Perhaps the story you finish is never the one you begin.

I am the sum total of everything that went before me, of all I have been seen done, of everything done-to-me. I am everyone everything whose being-in-the-world affected was affected by mine. I am anything that happens after I'm gone which would not have happened if I had not come.

I want to write novels. I want to write stories. I want to do the stuff that I became a writer to do.