It was the kiss by which all the others of his life would be judged and found wanting.

I wanted to write a balls-to-the-wall supernatural horror story, something I haven't done in a long time.

Clear communication between selves - the surface self and the deep self - is the enemy of self-doubt. It slays confusion.

What we like to think of ourselves and what we really are rarely have much in common.

You are the grim, goal-oriented ones who will not believe that the joy is in the journey rather than the destination no matter how many times it has been proven to you.

I saw something even more beautiful than a sense of humor: an appreciation for life’s essential absurdity.

Time continued to pass - the oldest trick in the world, and maybe the only one that really is magic.