Togetherness is the key to success: a lone bee makes hardly any honey

Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.

Margo always loved mysteries. And in everything that came afterward, I could never stop thinking that maybe she loved mysteries so much that she became one.

I don't believe people when they say their songs have nothing to do with their personal life.

I have no private life at all. I am a hunted woman. I can't take a step without being questioned and surrounded.

These aren't joyous times when we have war in Iraq. These are challenging times, and they're difficult times, and they're straining the psyche of our country. I understand that.

Baton technique is to a conductor what fingers are to a pianist.

If I could make a career out of drawing little girls hiding in corners, I would do really well.

I went to Kent State basically to avoid going to Vietnam, I had no idea what I was doing in the world. I was lost, and trying not to get into a fight every day.

I never know exactly where I'm going with a story, whether it's a short story or a novel. If I did I'd soon grow bored of it. The fun, for me, is in the finding out and the making sense of it.

It's always hard to wrap up a series. The longer I spend with the characters, the more they become like friends.