Hate misleads, fear distorts and love blinds.

Get an agent. Seriously, submitting stuff unagented means it will end up on the slush pile. An agent is the first quality filter, and a good agent is worth his or her weight in gold, as they'll often know the editors on a personal level and will be able to talk to them directly about the project.

Do you have to feel something for it to be real or mean anything? Can you touch your dreams, taste your imagination.

To the discovered, the discoverer can be a god.

Dreams are life, real life, not simply reflections. Dreams are honest.

Voyaging great distances -- through forests, from island to island, across plains and into the mountains -- is all about finding ourselves.

Love is harsh, and it consumes. And more than anything, it demands sacrifice.