When you’re late in a fairy tale, people wind up dead. And not true-love’s-kiss, glass-coffin-nap-time dead. Really dead, the kind of dead you don’t recover from.

Everyone thinks of them in terms of poisoned apples and glass coffins, and forgets that they represent girls who walked into dark forests and remade them into their own reflections.

Sure. If she gets mugged, she can just flute them to death.

Be effective not just efficient. Do right things not just things right.

He fell as gently as a tree falls. There was not even any sound..

Most of my writing life consist of nothing more than unglamorous, disciplined labor. I sit at my desk and I work like a farmer, and that's how it gets done.

The most we can hope for is strong marriages. Married women vote Republican; single women vote Democratic.

I like imagination -- and the way I think things could be, had been, or should be -- better than reality.

I love yoga. I do yoga when I have time, which is not very often.

It is bitter to lose a friend to evil before one loses him to death.

So much must I live for others, that almost I am a stranger to myself.

I was concerned about doing the right thing when I was a kid. I suppose as a child, youre a massive egomaniac, and you think that everything you do is going to affect the world.

Democrats are the only reason to vote for Republicans