Now panic beats and flutters inside my skull like a flock of starlings locked in an attic.

No one ever does live happily ever after, but we leave the children to find that out for themselves.

if you tell yourself the great lie of bad art-that you are in charge-your chance at the truth will be lost. The truth isn't always pretty.

Some things were better lost than found.

Our time here is brief, our risk enormous. Don't waste the one or increase the other, if you please.

Best not to look back. Best to believe there will be happily ever afters all the way around - and so there may be; who is to say there will not be such endings? Not all boats which sail away into darkness never find the sun again, or the hand of another child; if life teaches anything at all, it teachers that there are so many happy endings that the man who believes there is no God needs his rationality called into serious question.

You see something, then it clicks with something else, and it will make a story. But you never know when it's going to happen.