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

Humans were built to look back; that's why we have that swivel joint in our necks

There was a lot they didn’t tell you about death, she had discovered, and one of the biggies was how long it took the ones you loved most to die in your heart.

I do believe that when we're in the process of dying, that all these emergency circuits in the brain take over. I base what I'm saying not on any empirical evidence. I think it's very possible that when you're dying, these circuits open up, which would explain this whole white-light phenomena - when people clinically die and they see their relatives and stuff and say, "Hello, it's great to see you."

If you don’t have the time to do something right, where are you going to find the time to fix it?

I believe that the combination of pencil and memory creates a kind of practical magic, and magic is dangerous.

Nightmares exist outside of logic, and there's little fun to be had in explanations; they're antithetical to the poetry of fear.