Like the man said, a little hope never hurt anybody

A person's memory is everything, really. Memory is identity. It's you.

I write about things that scare me. I've never written a snake story in my life. I myself have never written a story about snakes because they don't scare me. I write about rats because they scare the hell out of me.

Sometimes [...] real love is silent as well as blind.

JK Rowling created seven Horcruxes. She put a part of her soul in every book and now her books will live forever

And will I tell you that these three lived happily ever after? I will not, for no one ever does. But there was happiness. And they did live.

Too often, in novels that are speculative, God is a kind of kryptonite, and that's about all that it is, and it goes back to Dracula, where someone dumps a crucifix in Count Dracula's face, and he pulls away and runs back into his house. That's not religion. That's some kind of juju, like a talisman.