There are worse things you can do to people you love than kill them.

So if reality is all a spell, and you don't really want what you think you want... If you have no free will. You don't really know what you know. You don't really love who you only think you love. What do you have left to live for?

I say never be complete, I say stop being perfect, I say let... lets evolve, let the chips fall where they may.

To see how boring you really are, write a book about soap and cults, and the profits you make will be your only means of subsistence.

After you hear even the shortest great story, it should fill you with a little bit of fear.

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 was freedom. Losing all hope was freedom.