“If a fear cannot be articulated, it can't be conquered.”

“The thought process can never be complete without articulation.”

“He was a romantic in his own harsh way…yet he was also realist enough to know that some times love actually did conquer all.”

“The good folks mostly win, courage usually triumphs over fear, the family dog hardly ever contracts rabies: these are things I knew at twenty-five, and things I still know now, at the age of 25 x 2. But I know something else as well: there's a place in most of us where the rain is pretty much constant, the shadows are always long, and the woods are full of monsters. It is good to have a voice in which the terrors of such a place can be articulated and its geography partially described, without denying the sunshine and clarity that fill so much of our ordinary lives. (viii)”

“She had always consciously or unconsciously formed fear into a simple equation: fears = unknown.”

“Fear is fertile and rage is its offspring..”

“How I wish you were fear.”