CHERISH a heart like you'd carry an egg, cause when it drops it becomes pieces of shell, never to be MENDED

The beautiful rests on the foundations of the necessary, Ralph Waldo Emerson.

The hardest thing to do is watch the one you love, love someone else

Books can kill you, while you are reading.

I had this attitude, that Silicon Valley obnoxious attitude, that I know what I'm doing, and the rest was going to be pretty easy.

In days of doubt, in days of dreary musings on my country's fate, you alone are my comfort and support, oh great, powerful, righteous, and free Russian language!

Choose your mistakes carefully.

Every book is a new journey. I never felt I was an expert on a subject as I embarked on a project.

... the main concern of the fiction writer is with mystery as it is incarnated in human life.

When your shot has to carry over a water hazard, you can either hit one more club or two more balls.

For the trouble with the real folk of Faerie is that they do not always look like what they are; and they put on the pride and beauty that we would fain wear ourselves.

You must avoid the investigation trap. You can't postpone tough decisions by studying them to death.