If she fully embraced life with all its conflicts, she would suffer a breakdown.

Nothing is worse than being alone on the evening of the day when one's cow has exploded.

Fate isn’t one straight road…there are forks in it, many different routes to different ends. We have the free will to choose the path.

Too much mystery is merely an annoyance. Too much adventure is exhausting. And a little terror goes a long way.

Perseverance is impossible if we don't permit ourselves to hope.

You won't find the truth of life in morbidity, only in hope.

Evil was coming. I wondered whose face it would be wearing.

Of course, in the process, you must never do harm to others in any serious way, or you'll cease to amuse Him. Then payment comes due for promises you didn't keep.

He lives vividly in her recollections, however, and his memory is etched on her soul.

The less I have, the less I can lose.

You be careful, Wizard. Interestingly eccentric friends aren't easy to find.

Man is a measure of his mind.

You know what I realized? No one else lives in my memories but me.

Reality is such an elusive concept.

I think people underestimate the value of collaboration, especially for writers.

Memory has no power but what the soul chooses to make of it.

I was never one to paint space, I paint air.

I can, with one eye squinted, take it all as a blessing.

To dance is human, to polka is divine.

There has never been and never will be another you. You have a purpose - a very special gift that only you can bring to the world.

If God does not give you something you ask for, wait on Him. He will speak with you tenderly and sympathetically about the matter until you yourself understand that He cannot grant your prayer.