As every reader knows in his or her heart, there is much more to truth than mere fact.

We are all mistaken sometimes; sometimes we do wrong things, things that have bad consequences. But it does not mean we are evil, or that we cannot be trusted ever afterward.

There is no shame in not knowing something. The shame is in not being willing to learn.

While the heart beats, hope lingers.

And all meet in singing, which braids together the different knowings into a wide and subtle music, the music of living.

Joy bubbles on a fountain of doubt.

Your future is uncertain, and I can tell you nothing that can help you. You are singular and dangerous, and so it is that you are sought by both the Dark and the Light.

Not even I can see all ends, but I have been in this world long enough to know that a choice is not choice and breeds slow ills, even were it done for the highest reasons.

The only good thing about being frightened half to death, she thought, is that it makes me forget all about being seasick.

I shall never complain of the tedium of the city again.

Elednor,' he said, 'Elednor, why have you betrayed me? Come back to me. Come back to were you belong. I alone need you.

I tweet early in the morning when I wake up or late at night just to let you know that I have a show or what's on my mind, and that's it. I hate Snapchat and all of that. It's making kids so stupid.

Here we spent so much time together - eight months of our lives almost - and it was so great because we all got so close and that really made us not afraid to improve with each other.

Love has the power to rescue us and not let go, otherwise it isn't love

If you go into a relationship expecting someone else to fill you up, you're doomed right off.

Perfectionism is the enemy of creation, as extreme self- solitude is the enemy of well- being.

I miss good old-fashioned honorable people just trying to make something of life. Simply, without hurting anyone else. I know that makes me a sap.

The poisons are our principal medicines, which kill the disease and save the life.

I don't want to say work is who I am, but some people feel more centered and more whole when they're producing and creating.

Bringing Mid-World to a new readership felt like a big responsibility, but I'm so glad that readers have enjoyed the story. That is a reward in itself.

The lash may force men to physical labor, it cannot force them to spiritual creativity.