I've worked out a Ninja Replacement Score for novels. It's basically the number of characters that need to be replaced by ninjas to make the book good.

I was once on a panel where we concluded that the only things you couldn't have in YA were boring and beastiality. Now with the introduction of shapeshifters, I'd say just boring.

Sometimes what we want or don't want doesn't matter in the end.

Sometimes what we want or don't want doesn't matter in the end. Sometimes magic doesn't listen after all.

Hey Susie Derkins, is that your face, or is a 'possum stuck in your collar?

You will be your best self when you take time to understand what you really need, feel and want.

A man who cannot control his temper is not very likely to control his passions, and no matter what his pretensions in religion, he moves in daily life very close to the animal plane.

I decline to accept Hebrew mythology as a guide to twentieth-century science.

Instead of looking for the dream in reverie, people should look for reverie in the dream. There are calm beaches in the midst of nightmares.

I mean the whole thing about meditation and yoga is about connecting to the higher part of yourself, and then seeing that every living thing is connected in some way.

He kissed me, and I pulled my personal psycho into bed with me.

He who does not believe according to the tradition of the Catholic Church is an unbeliever.

Whether an illness affects your heart, your leg or your brain, it's still an illness, and there should be no distinction.

Is this really Butte, Montana, or just existential blues?