God is cruel. Sometimes he makes you live.

That's something that is almost accidental at the beginning of a career, but the more you write, the more trained you are to recognize the little signals.

I've always believed in God. I also think that's the sort of thing that either comes as part of the equipment, the capacity to believe, or at some point in your life, when you're in a position where you actually need help from a power greater than yourself, you simply make an agreement.

Sometimes the only thing to do is to take the thing that you must have. Even if someone gets hurt.

and so will the world end, I think, a victim of love rather than hate. For love's ever been the more destructive weapon, sure.

I had a period where I thought I might not be good enough to publish.

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