Words create sentences; sentences create paragraphs; sometimes paragraphs quicken and begin to breathe.

It was always a pleasure to write. I can never think of a time when I just hacked something out to fulfil a contract or meet a deadline. I might have hacked things out, but it was always stuff I loved.

You learn best by reading a lot and writing a lot, and the most valuable lessons of all are the ones you teach yourself.

Do you know how cruel your God can be, David. How fantastically cruel?...Sometimes he makes us live.

Sometimes there is absolutely no difference at all between salvation and damnation.

Nothing is ever lost, Sarah. Nothing that can't be found.

I'm going to be dead for a long time, so I have a lot to do now.