When I am fascinated by something, I like to play with it.

Writing is writing, and stories are stories. Perhaps the only true genres are fiction and nonfiction. And even there, who can be sure?

The bitterness of joy lies in the knowledge that is cannot last. Nor should joy last beyond a certain season, for, after that season, even joy would become merely habit.

She looked, and a scarlet butterfly flew away from her, away down the length of the tower, and then another, another, an unraveling scarf of butterflies like winged blood.

Archetypes are universal, and, in subtle or extravagant ways, interchangeable.

We need the expressive arts, the ancient scribes, the storytellers, the priests.

The soul is a magician. Only living flesh hampers it.

I submitted manuscripts to publishers. This was not so much a feeling that I should be published as a wish to escape the feared and hated drudgery of normal work.

No one is ever ordinary.

Maidens who stay maidens turn into saints. Old women become sorceresses. Tough jobs, both of these.

I will draw you back to me. You shall see. By a chain of stars.

You are immortal till the very moment you die. Discover it, and stand untouchable.

Never in all her life had she imagined that this idolized millinery could look, to those who paid for it, like the decorations of an insane monkey.

Writing is also an art.

Change excites me. I am fifty years old. It's when the mind catches up with the body.

Since it is obviously inconceivable that all religions can be right, the most reasonable conclusion is that they are all wrong.

The more you practice and study, the better you are so I still practice and study all the time.

I will buy any creme, cosmetic, or elixir from a woman with a European accent.

Depression is useful. It signals that you need to make changes in your life, it challenges your tendency to withdraw, it reminds you to take action.

I don't just preach; I put my money where my mouth is!

Success is the ability to continue to move through total disaster.