Unicorns, dragons, witches may be creatures conjured up in dreams, but on the page their needs, joys, anguishes, and redemptions should be just as true as those of Madame Bovary or Martin Chuzzlewit.

When your sad--like really sad--you only want to be with other people who are sad.

And as long as people have problems, the blues can never die.

Is he a good man?" "Define 'good'.

One never discusses anything with anybody who can understand one discusses things with people who cannot understand.

Myth is very powerful and fiction is very powerful.

I grew up on two wheels in the dirt.

A deaf church is a dead church: that is an unalterable principle.

The US States are our laboratories of democracy.

Also, as a rule of thumb, if you find yourself defending your inalienable right to make someone else feel like garbage, you're on the wrong side of the argument.

If his suffering did not make Jesus give up on us, nothing will.