A successful novel should interrupt the reader’s life, make him or her miss appointments, skip meals, forget to walk the dog.

Go now. Our journey is done. And may we meet again, in the clearing, at the end of the path.

When you own a piano, it's harder to think about moving.

The concept of dreaming is known to the waking mind but to the dreamer there is no waking, no real world, no sanity; there is only the screaming bedlam of sleep.

I did spend years as an addict, so I know that world, although I wish I didn't.

Friends. They aren’t any such thing as good friend or bad friend. Maybe there are just friend. People who stand by you when you're hurt and who helped you feel not so lonely. Maybe there are worth being scared for and hoping for and living for. Maybe worth dying for too. If that what has to be. No bad friends. Only people you want. Need to be with. People who build their houses in your heart.

Books are a uniquely portable magic.