The woman had looked into the abyss and then walked out across it.

The glory of a good tale is that it is limitless and fluid; a good tale belongs to each reader in its own particular way.

Superhero movies and comic books teach a lesson that runs directly counter to the culture-of-violence idea: guns are for bad guys too cowardly to fight like men.

The book is not the important part. The book is the delivery system. The important part is the story and the talent.

the only mortal sin is giving up.

I've met talespinners before, Jake, and they're all cut more or less from the same cloth. They tell tales because they're afraid of life.

Reading takes time, and the glass teat takes too much of it.