We have once again succeeded in destroying what we could not create.

Optimism is a perfectly legitimate response to failure.

Most gothics are overplotted novels whose success or failure hinges on the author's ability to make you believe in the characters and partake of the mood.

God doesn't bribe, child. He just makes a sign and lets people take it as they will.

there are lots of would-be censors out there, and although they may have different agendas, they all want basically the same thing: for you to see the world they see...or to at least shut up about what you do see that's different. they are agents of the status quo. not necessarily bad guys, but dangerous guys if you happen to believe in intellectual freedom.

All I ask is that you do as well as you can, and remember that, while to write adverbs is human, to write he said or she said is divine.

And in real life endings aren't always neat, whether they're happy endings, or whether they're sad endings.