“May this house stand until an ant drinks the ocean and a tortoise circles the wo…” — Jonathan Carroll

Very often I'll find out at the end of a book what I put in at the beginning. A sort of process of elimination and discovery in one.

There's almost always a point in a book where something happens that triggers the rest of the plot.

The Wilmington, Delaware, television station that bills itself as The Family Minded Station is Channel 69.

Salzburg... is a mountain town with a rushing river running right through the center, everything in the rain various shades of green and brown.