Your brand of comfort bears some similarity to your tactical offense.
She had opened a door. . . and now she was walking with demons. And at the end of her travels, she would have her revenge. . . Pain had made a sadist of her.
I firmly believe that a story is only as good as the villain.
Nothing ever begins. There is no first moment; no single word or place from which this or any other story springs.
I don't like to make a distinction between the writer and the painter , finally , because I do both things anyway. Everybody's dreaming and trying to put down their dreams in the way that their hand knows best. I feel as much a unity , as much comradeship , with painters as I do writers.
We burn so hard, but we shed so little light; it makes us crazy and sad.
Let the mad find wisdom in their madness for the sane, and let the sane be grateful.
Sign language is the noblest gift God has given to deaf people.
While it may be difficult to change the world, it is always possible to change the way we look at it.
Opportunity does not need to be exactly equal. It needs only to exist. For the talented and motivated, that will be enough. . . The vital thing is not to maximize everyone's performance, but to ensure maximal performance from the most talented, the ones who can make a difference.
I've been out on the book tour going through Pittsburgh, St Louis and Cleveland, Dayton and Orlando, Raleigh-Durham. I sign many books for people.