How pointless life could be, what a foolish business of inventing things to love, just so you could dread losing them.

A good title holds magic, some cognitive dissonance, a little grit between the teeth, but above all it is the jumping-off place into wonder.

You can be as earnest and ridiculous as you need to be, if you don't attempt it in isolation. The ridiculously earnest are known to travel in groups. And they are known to change the world.

Your dreams, what you hope for and all that, it's not separate from your life. It grows right up out of it.

I do my best work if I think about what it is I have to offer.

Of the two hundred bones in the human body, more than a quarter are in the foot. It is a more complicated instrument than an automobile transmission, and it is treated with far less consideration.

I don't bring expectations to any of my books. I don't tell people what to do. I want to invite them in.