The world will always punish the few people with special talents the rest of us don’t recognize as real.

If there had been zombies on the iceberg when the Titanic hit it, that would have made a much better movie.

No fear. No distractions. The ability to let that which does not matter truly slide.

There's a moment in every book when the book turns and it surprises me.

I have an experience with as many of my readers as possible that's really genuine. I love it when they write to me, and I'm able to send them things. I love meeting them in person, and even if it's only for a moment I love having that physical, touching interaction.

The same way a compact disk isn't responsible for what's recorded on it, that's how we are. You're about as free to act as a programmed computer. You're about as one-of-a-kind as a dollar bill.

Every stage of life has its own form of power, and we're always sort of terrified as to whether we can make the jump to the next form of power.