I think I know what it's like to have a family that the outside world sees as peculiar or lacking.

Any parent knows how to be the ideal parent.

The paradox of publicity is that even as we do it, we know it's killing off the chance of another reader happening across our book in the ideal state of innocence.

I always wince a little bit when I send me to each of my new books. I wince at submitting myself to my father's judgment. But, of course, he's such a fond father that he always writes back, saying it's the greatest thing ever written.

Books are the air I breathe, so I don't notice the seasons.

I thought one way to try to hold on to the power was to write the script myself. That way, I could say to filmmakers, "I'm not asking you to hire me unseen. I'm just saying, 'Here's my script. Can we work together?'" So that worked out well.

The world is always changing brightness and hotness and soundness, I never know how it's going to be the next minute.