The turtle couldn't help us.

Death was no less a miracle than birth.

I started writing seriously when I was about 12. I am always in the mood.

Understand death? Sure. That was when the monsters got you.

You could not turn off love- even the rather absent, sometimes taken for granted love- the way you'd turn off a faucet. Love ran from the heart and the heart had it's own imperatives

You want to remember that while you're judging the book, the book is also judging you.

The only leverage the manufacturer can apply to the retailer is his relationship with the consumer. And the main element in profit growth is going to have to lie in making his brand more valuable to the retailer, through its being more valuable to the consumer. And that means his brand must be unique, it must have no adequate direct substitutes - because it is in this, after all, that value lies.