When do you learn that the world, like any diner worth its salt, is open twenty-four hours a day?

A passport, as I'm sure you know, is a document that one shows to government officials whenever one reaches a border between two countries, so that the official can learn who you are, where you were born, and how you look when photographed unflatteringly.

You may want to keep a commonplace book which is a notebook where you can copy parts of books you think are in code, or take notes on a series of events you may have observed that are suspicious, unfortunate, or very dull. Keep your commonplace book in a safe place, such as underneath your bed, or at a nearby dairy.

What do your parents know, about surviving?

There are two kinds of fears: rational and irrational- or in simpler terms, fears that make sense and fears that don't.

Miracles can happen, even to those who are small, flammable, and dressed all in black.

I wrote Rick before I was published, and I had no vision of it, really. It was just a story that occurred to me, and that put its little claws in my brain, and I wrote it, and I showed it to a couple people, and they all said, "This is ghastly."