No one ever does live happily ever after, but we leave the children to find that out for themselves.

Resistance to change is proportional to how much the future might be altered by any given act.

If you can read in the 21st century you own the world.

Who gets to be best-liked in any community? Who is the most trusted? Why, the man who does the dirty job, of course, and does it with a smile. The man who does the job you couldn't bring yourself to do.

Writers write. That's all it is. It is as simple, and as complex, as that.

The wonder is that so many OCDs manage to live productive lives, just the same. They work, they eat (often not enough or too much, it's true), they go to the movies, they make love to their girlfriends and boyfriends, their wives and husbands... and all the time those birds are there, clinging to them and pecking away little bits of flesh.

You see something, then it clicks with something else, and it will make a story. But you never know when it's going to happen.