There is no such thing as a happy ending. I never met a single one to equal "Once upon a time.

I love the movies, and when I go to see a movie that's been made from one of my books, I know that it isn't going to be exactly like my novel because a lot of other people have interpreted it. But I also know it has an idea that I'll like because that idea occurred to me, and I spent a year, or a year and a half of my life working on it.

And she sees that the moonlight is losing its orange glow. It has become buttery, and will soon turn to silver.

Oh, there were all sorts of things to wonder about, but the truth was simple: here stood this door alone on an endless stretch of beach, and it was for only one of two things: opening or leaving closed.

Symbolism exists to adorn and enrich, not to create an artificial sense of profundity.

No one ever really pays for betrayal in silver....The price of any betrayal always comes due in flesh.

Talent is a dreadfully cheap commodity, cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work and study; a constant process of honing. Talent is a dull knife that will cut nothing unless it is wielded with great force.