I believe that the combination of pencil and memory creates a kind of practical magic, and magic is dangerous.

Until that afternoon in October four years ago, I hadn't known dogs could scream.

It was like drowning, only from the inside out.

That was what I wanted, but I don't need it to be gone. I can love you and I can love life and bear the pain all at the same time. I think the pain might even make the rest better, the way a good setting can make a diamond look better.

There is the Watchmaker Theory that God wound up the universe and let it tick. That may be. or it may be that he takes a hand in things from time to time. But whatever it is, I am sure that there is something out there.

There's a saying - "Write what you know." It's bad advice if you take it as an unbreakable rule, but good advice if you use it as a foundation.

Read a lot, write a lot is the great commandment.