All I ask is that you do as well as you can, and remember that, while to write adverbs is human, to write he said or she said is divine.

Writing is seduction.

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

It's as if God gave you something-all those stories- and said, "Here you are. Try not to lose it." But children lose everything unless somebody is there to help them, and if your parents are too stupid to do it, maybe i ought to.

Even the company of the mad was better than the company of the dead.

Sometimes dead is better

Good books don't give up all their secrets at once.