If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.

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

You know," Glen Bateman said, looking out toward Grand Junction in the early light of morning, "I've heard the saying 'That sucks' for years without really being sure of what it meant. Now I think I know.

But who can foresee such things? None of us can predict the final outcomes of our actions, and few of us even try; most of us just do what we do to prolong a moment's pleasure or to stop the pain. And even when we act for the noblest reasons, the last link of the chain all too often drips with someone's blood.

I'm afraid of all kinds of things. I'm afraid of failing at whatever story I'm writing - that it won't come up for me, or that I won't be able to finish it.

Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.

People think that I must be a very strange person. This is not correct. I have the heart of a small boy. It is in a glass jar on my desk.