Might have, could have, may have, should have—the haves and have nots reduced to pointless possibilities.

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

Writing fantasy lets me imagine a great deal more than, say, writing about alligators, and lets me write about places more distant than Florida, but I can tell you things about Florida and alligators, let you make the connection all on your own.

We are constantly being put to the test by trying circumstances and difficult people and problems not necessarily of our own making.

When she cried, he would say, "there is nothing wrong with crying. Your feelings tell you who are. They tell what is important. Don't ever be ashamed of them.

Who would you be but who you are?

Well, I think that as a country, we've drifted away from appreciating the importance of imagination.