We are the yearning creatures of this planet.

Story is a yearning meeting an obstacle.

All plot comes from the character's trying to get something, to achieve something, wanting, desiring, longing.

The ironic humor comes from the distance between what we understand about ourselves and what is truly going on in ourselves.

Jayne Anne Phillips . . . is at the height of her powers in Lark and Termite. . . . This is a major novel from one of America's finest writers.

The monitor presently shows the Windows Blue Screen of Death, though this does not alarm him, as the BSoD is the universal screen saver in Hell.

I know you're more than fae." She just grinned. "It's true, I'm part fae, part awesome.

And when the time is right, I hope that African Americans will again look to the party of emancipation, civil liberty, and individual freedom.

Those are the men who will dance at your wedding.

Maybe your path is completely different from what you imagined.

I think it's always good to take on things that at first seem bigger than you. Then you just try and surmount them.

If you have got the public in the palm of your hand, you can be sure that is where they want to be.

Once you find the truth, no one can hurt you. You can let them off the hook. That is hard! Until then, keep distance, preserve the peace. Eventually it’s like you weren’t hurt.

I follow my heart, for I can trust it.

Drawing is a means of obtaining and communicating knowledge

I want people to come away from my book with questions. Questions about virtue and goodness. Not answers.