And if you are honest about the words coming out of your characters' mouths, you'll find that you've let yourself in for a fair amount of criticism.

The beauty of religious mania is that it has the power to explain everything. Once God (or Satan) is accepted as the first cause of everything which happens in the mortal world, nothing is left to chance...logic can be happily tossed out the window.

we need ghost stories because we, in fact, are the ghosts.

I changed it. I had to. Do you know why?" She studied him, her eyes grave. "Because that was then and this is now. Because the past is gone, even though it defines the present.

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

I watched Titanic when I got back home from the hospital, and cried. I knew that my IQ had been damaged.

The battle between good and evil is endlessly fascinating because we are participants every day.