Dolls with no little girls around to mind them were sort of creepy under any conditions.

Do you need someone to make you a paper badge with the word WRITER on it before you can believe you are one? God I hope not.

we need ghost stories because we, in fact, are the ghosts.

Sometimes the embers are better than the campfire.

As a rule, I don't worry about genre. I just want to tell a good story, with characters that interest me and my readers.

Just go on dancing with me like this forever and I'll never tire. We'll scrape our shoe on the stars and hang upside down from the moon.

God turned out to be a bunch of bad little kids playing interstellar Xbox. Isn't that funny?