I saw the end of his life right there in that single moment. His pride, his decency, his secrets, his death.

I read everything of Ray Bradbury when I was 12 or 13, and I think that's the most effective time to read Bradbury. He built such a moral world, where you have to make decisions and grow up.

You can be betrayed in your sleep. The whole world can tilt while you're dreaming of butterflies.

Real love, after all, was worth the price you paid, however briefly it might last.

Weapons are kept from women, but such a naming suggests that perhaps men fear our talents in war as well as our desire for peace.

I never see a novel as a film while I'm writing it. Mostly because novels and films are so different, and I'm such an internal novelist

Jill and I have known each other our whole lives. One house separates our houses but we act as if it doesn't exist. We met before we were born and we'll probably still know each other after we die. At least, that's the way we're planning it.