I like to get ten pages a day, which amounts to 2,000 words. That’s 180,000 words over a three-month span, a goodish length for a book — something in which the reader can get happily lost, if the tale is done well and stays fresh.

It was not fair, it was not fair, it was not fair. So cried his child's heart, and then his child's heart died a little. For that is also the way of the world.

If there is love, smallpox scars are as pretty as dimples. - Japanese Proverb

The color white is the absence of memory.

Books are a uniquely portable magic.

And didn't they say that, although curiosity killed the cat, satisfaction brought the beast back?

When it comes to the past, everyone writes fiction.