Being tired isn't the same as being rich, but most times it's close enough.

Cults make people sing so hard for so long - because it over-oxygenates the blood and sets them up to faint.

Look up at the stars and you're gone.

My books are always about someone obtaining a power to replace the previous sort of power that they held.

My books do have a sort of romantic community at the end - people coming together. But on a more basic level, I always see them as being about power, in the same way that Harry Potter books are pitched to a population of young people who really have no power.

This is the worst problem with living history museums. They always leave the best parts out. Like typhus. And opium. And scarlet letters. Shunning. Witch-burning.

You don’t care where I live or how I feel, or what I eat or how I feed my kids or how I pay the doctor if I get sick, and yes I am stupid and bored and weak, but I am still your responsibility.