When you start, it's very cold, an impossible task. But then maybe the characters start to take on a little bit of life, or the story takes a turn that you don't expect ... With me that happens a lot because I don't outline, I just have a vague notion. So it's always felt like less of a made thing and more of a found thing. That's exciting. That's a thrill.

Only library books speak with such wordless eloquence of the power good stories hold over us.

Close your eyes and click your heals three times...because there's no place like Dome.

If you were seeing a lot of horseshit, there had to be a pony in the vicinity.

There's a lot of things people think they can't do and then discover they can when they find themselves tight-wired.

Time heals all wounds.

The woman had looked into the abyss and then walked out across it.