You walk around with a negative attitude and you're just naturally going to bring trouble and hard times down on yourself. - Charles de Lint

It's not the work or the personality of the founder of a religion that's important, but what its followers do with what they learn...

I'm a writer and this is what I do no matter what name we put to it. Year by year, the world is turning into a darker and stranger place than any of us could want. This is the only thing I do that has potential to shine a little further than my immediate surroundings. For me, each story is a little candle held up to the dark of night, trying to illuminate the hope for a better world where we all respect and care for each other.

"Gina always believed there was magic in the world. "But it doesn't work in the way it does in fairy tales," she told me. "It doesn't save us. We have to save ourselves.