Writing about magic is harder than writing about spies because you're dealing with something that doesn't really exist.

All that sadness. All that anger. It is the smoke that gets into your eyes. If you do not blow it away, how can you hope to see?

My favorite part of writing a book is thinking up the ideas, and that can start a long time before I actually sit down at my desk.

There's a name for people with an interest in the moon," Alex said. "They're called lunatics.

There's a dream world that we visit sometimes and that's how we found out who we are.

You don't need to be able to string a sentence together in a way that is elegant or even vaguely meaningful to produce a bestseller - as Dan Brown has demonstrated time and again.

You're my closest friend and you're thousands of miles away.