You can either give in to what youre feeling, just say ‘okay, enough is enough’ and be done with it, or you can fight it.

The future is an ever-shifting maze of possibilities until it becomes the present. The future I have shown you tonight is not yet fixed. But it is more likely to become so with the passing of every day because nothing is being done to turn it aside. If you would change it, do as I have told you.

I might add that you change as a person as you grow older, so you change as a writer, too.

If you do not hear music in your words, you have put too much thought into your writing and not enough heart.

Hurt leads to bitterness, bitterness to anger, travel too far that road and the way is lost.

She has her gown nicely in place tonight, doesn't she? Black velvet and sparkles, not a thread left hanging. Clever girl, this city. Even the sky is her friend.

...[Y]ou have an inner strength that makes it possible for you to do things other people couldn't even begin to think of doing.