We never know which lives we influence, or when, or why.

A dimwit thinks nothing is funny unless it's mean.

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.

See the BEAR of fearsome size! All the WORLD'S within his eyes. TIME grows thin, the past is a riddle; The TOWER awaits you in the middle.

There is zero, and there is eternity, and there is mortality, but there is no ultimate.

I'd like to learn French well enough to write in that language.

Semi-facetiously, when people ask me why I write these kinds of stories, I simply say that I was warped as a child. And, there is some truth to that.