Love and life belongs to great risk.

Does it hurt very much to die? Well, sweetheart, yes, but it hurts a lot more to keep living.

I will never write a sequel to anything that I will ever write.

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.

The amazing miracle of death, when one second you're walking and talking, and the next second you're an object.

Besides, it happens fast for some people and slow for some, accidents or gravity, but we all end up mutilated.

A little old lady sitting at the front of the bus can do nothing to change civil rights.