I know that feeling all too well, but I broke the only pair of rose-colored glasses I had the chance to own a long time ago. - Charles de Lint

I don't know why I care what people write about me after I'm dead, except that since I invest so much of my time telling the truth in my fiction, I'd hate to see someone play fast and loose with the pieces of my life. I don't care what they might think of me; but I don't want lies about my life used to invalidate the stories. My characters seem real because they are drawn from the realities of my life. I didn't have to research their pain; I just tapped into my own.

Everybody’s got to make a buck — the trick is, either find something you like to do, or do something to pay the rent that doesn’t take too much out of you. Capisce?

There's more to life than just surviving . . . but . . . sometimes just surviving is all you get