If this is what you do to the winner, I'd hate to see how you treat the runner up.

I vividly remember being 14. That was the age when I started to get happy: I started being a writer and stopped being a loser.

You must do what you want.

There are few things in the world that we don't know. Science has explained everything away.

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?

The birds fly in the wrong places and there are too many stars in the sky.

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