Being paid well for something you love to do - it's a grace.

You can't always win arguments as a writer, but you have to just go ahead and say, well, I'm doing it that way anyway.

At the core of every ordered system, whether a family or a factory, is chaos. But in the whirl of every chaos lies a strange order, waiting to be found.

Lies hurt people; imagination makes life more fun.

There's still a fascination with somebody who can write at book length, no matter what the book is.

I'm no more a wonder than anyone. And that's what makes the world magical. Every baby's a seed of wonder - that gets watered or it doesn't.

I think the world is an interesting place and I don't think anybody has the firm and final answer to what it is but I kind of assume there's a purpose.