Patrick Ness: "Stories are wild creatures. When you let them loose, who knows what havoc they might wreak."

If you have your health, if you have people in your life to love, you are blessed. Slow down and enjoy the simple things in life.

A dream can fortify a man's life, or it can bring suffering upon it. A dream can make a man feel alive, or it can kill him instead. Even if a man is abandoned by that dream, part of it will remain smoldering in his heart. Every man has envisioned his life in this way, at least once: a life as a martyr to his dream, his God. To simply exist just because one's been born is the sort of notion that I hate; I can't stand it.

Hope is at times a wicked thing.