Anyway, as the old barrelhouse song says, My God, how the money rolled in. Norton must have subscribed to the old Puritan notion that the best way to figure out which folks God favours is by checking their bank acounts.

...my basic belief about the making of stories is that they pretty much make themselves.

On the day of my judgment, when I stand before God, and He asks me why did I kill one of his true miracles, what am I gonna say? That it was my job? My job?

Kids, fiction is the truth inside the lie, and the truth of this fiction is simple enough: the magic exists.

Marriage is referred to in the bible as “mystical union,” and it really is in the sense that two people who don’t know each other get together. I’m always interested in how much you find out about the other person and how much you don’t find out.

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

It's hard for me to believe that people who read very little (or not at all in some cases) should presume to write and expect people to like what they have written.