We don't need fantasy to mess with our minds to the point of rendering us insane - real life horrors do that already.

A boomerang returns back to the person who throws it.

When tough times come, it is particularly important to offset them with much gentle softness. Be a pillow.

Instructions are never included. They vary with the strength of your ability to see, the measure of your selective blindness, the limits of your mercy, and the intensity of your desire.

Withhold a smile only when the smile can hurt someone. Otherwise, let it bloom forth in a riot.

Marion Zimmer Bradley took apart my first submission to her, covered the manuscript in red ink revisions, and told me to try her again. I had never been so reeling with authorial joy as I had been that day, holding Marion's letter and seeing that ravaged manuscript - finally, it meant that someone cared!

If you have never changed your mind about some fundamental tenet of your belief, if you have never questioned the basics, and if you have no wish to do so, then you are likely ignorant.