Don’t go beyond, no matter how much you feel you need to, Doctor. The barrier was not made to be broken. Remember this: there is more power here than you know. It is old and always restless. Remember.

...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.

you can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will.

Not everybody believes in ghosts, but I do. Do you know what they are, Trisha? She had shaken her head slowly. Men and women who can't get over their past . . . That's what ghosts are.

But it's writing, damn it, not washing the car or putting on eyeliner. If you can take it seriously, we can do business. If you can't or won't, it's time for you to close the book and do something else. Wash the car, maybe.

All you imagined, no matter how wild it might seem, was no more than a disguised version of what you already knew.

I have an idea of how the book will finish up, but it very rarely finishes up the way that I think it's going to.