It can't be dead. It was alive just a minute ago.

...but it doesn't feel crazy to us. It feels like what we do.

It wasn't that I was stupid ... It was just that there didn't seem to be a lot to say that someone wasn't already saying.

I prayed to trees. This was easier than praying directly to God. There was nearly always a tree nearby.

When I read good stories, I want to write good stories too.

I cannot just write a frivolous book, a la-di-da book. Everything isn't la-di-da. There is something that's going to pull you up short. I want to reassure young readers. I want to comfort them, to not fear the unexpected.

I started thinking about life insurance and how nice it would be if you could get insurance that your life would be happy, and that everyone you knew could be happy, and they could all do what they really wanted to do, and they could all find the people they wanted to find.