Did-a-chick? Dum-a-chum? Dad-a-cham? Ded-a-chek?

May you find your Tower, Roland, and breach it, and may you climb to the top!

I like to get ten pages a day, which amounts to 2,000 words. That’s 180,000 words over a three-month span, a goodish length for a book — something in which the reader can get happily lost, if the tale is done well and stays fresh.

I never had any friends later on like the ones I had when I was 12 - Jesus, did you?

The scariest moment is always just before you start.

Scaring people, especially in our day and time, is one of the hardest things on earth, as far as I am concerned.

It hurt, of course, but more often than not the best things do, I've found.