To see that your life is a story while you're in the middle of living it may be a help to living it well.

No man, no power, can bind the action of wizardry or still the words of power. For they are the very words of Making, and one who could silence them could unmake the world.

If one believes that words are acts, as I do, then one must hold writers responsible for what their words do.

To exhibit the perfect uselessness of knowing the answer to the wrong question.

Grieving, like being blind, is a strange business; you have to learn how to do it. We seek company in mourning, but after the early bursts of tears, after the praises have been spoken, and the good days remembered, and the lament cried, and the grave closed, there is no company in grief. It is a burden borne alone.

Great artists make the roads; good teachers and good companions can point them out. But there ain't no free rides, baby.

A story rises from the springs of creation, from the pure will to be; it tells itself; I takes its own course, finds its own way, its own words; and the writer's job is to be its medium.