“In my imagination, the Editor meditated in a mountain-cave, espoused the rules of grammar, and frowned upon speculative fiction.”

“I wrote my first book in fifth grade. It was about a dog that goes to outer space and is an ambassador for Earth.”

“After college, I went on a real big classics kick. Read everything by Faulkner, Hemingway, Woolf, Proust, Dostoevsky. And that classics train dropped me off at 'Dracula.' Halfway through it, I unde...”

“Then love knew it was called love. And when I lifted my eyes to your name, suddenly your heart showed me my way”

“I am intrigued by the smile upon your face, and the sadness within your eyes”

“The eye through which I see God is the same eye through which God sees me; my eye and God's eye are one eye, one seeing, one knowing, one love.”

“At the moment of vision, the eyes see nothing.”

“Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?”

“It is often my nature to be abstract, hidden in plain sight, or nowhere at all.”