It's a long way back to Eden, Sweetheart, so don't sweat the small stuff.

...knowing that to be a librarian was to come as close as any human being can to sitting in the peak-seat of eternity's engine.

I tend to scare myself.

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

If a writer knows what he or she is doing, I'll go along for the ride. If he or she doesn't... well, I'm in my fifties now, and there are a lot of books out there. I don't have time to waste with the poorly written ones.

A lot of fairy tales are thinly disguised hostility raps against parents. Kids know that they can't make it on their own, that if they were left alone, they would die.

He smiles a lot. But I think there might be worms inside him making him smile.