The work never matches the dream of perfection the artist has to start with.
The best fiction is far more true than any journalism.
You must always know the past, for there is no real Was, there is only Is.
We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid.
Caddy got the box and set it on the floor and opened it. It was full of stars. When I was still, they were still. When I moved, they glinted and sparkled. I hushed.
If there was anything at all in the Book, anything of hope and peace for His blind and bewildered spawn which He had chosen above all others to offer immortality, THOU SHALT NOT KILL must be it.