We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones.

I think telling stories is like pushing something. Pushing against uncreation itself, maybe.

In the years since, I've discovered there's a lot to be said for boredom.

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.

I love music, and I can play a little. But anyone can see the difference between someone who's talented and someone that's not.

But this wealth of information produced little or no insight.

The quiet, singing voice of the rose. The song that promised all might be well, all might be well, that all manner of things might be well.