The concept of dreaming is known to the waking mind but to the dreamer there is no waking, no real world, no sanity; there is only the screaming bedlam of sleep.

A good reputation is something that must be earned, yet can never be bought.

When asked, 'How do you write?' I invariably answer, 'one word at a time.'

I believe that anyone using the phrase 'That's so cool' should have to stand in the corner.

A great whispering noise began to rise in the woods on either side of the tracks, as if the forest had just noticed we were there and was commenting on it.

Death was no less a miracle than birth.

Because who would ever want to get close to another person if they knew how hard the letting-go part was? In your heart they only die a little at a time, don't they? Like a plant when you go away on a trip and forget to ask a neighbor to poke in once in awhile with the old watering-can, and its so sad—