I've met talespinners before, Jake, and they're all cut more or less from the same cloth. They tell tales because they're afraid of life.

Even at eleven, he had observed that things turned out right a ridiculous amount of the time.

All right I think we've been down here in the dark long enough. There's a whole other world upstairs. Take my hand Constant Reader and I'll be happy to lead you back into the sunshine. I'm happy to go there because I believe most people are essentially good. I know that I am. It's you I'm not entirely sure of.

It's best to be ruthless with the past.

I am in trouble here. This woman is not right.

Description begins in the writer’s imagination, but should finish in the reader’s.

I never met a writer who wasn't lazy.