My work is very dear to me, and certainly I have had all the emotional highs and lows that go with trying to get it to an audience. But I do have some kind of detachment that seems somewhat unusual in my trade. I'm a writer who writes every day. I don't have a period of months where I can't get anything done and I wander around tearing my hair out. When I come back from a book tour, for instance, I might have one day where I sleep late and then check my e-mail, and then go for a walk, and then the next day I'm really itching to get back at writing a story.

Your initial opinion on just about anything may change over time.

It was a curious feeling, that something could be so close and so distant at the same time.

You may be right,' she said, a phrase which here meant 'I’m wrong, but I don’t have the courage to say so.

It has been said that the hardest job in the world is raising a child, but the people who says this have probably never worked at a comb factory or captured pirates on the high seas.

How do you do?" said Violet. "How do you do?" said Klaus. "Odo yow!" said Sunny.

I find reading screenplays difficult, as they're only a roadmap for what a movie might end up being.