In the lives of children, pumpkins turn into coaches, mice and rats turn into men. When we grow up, we realize it is far more common for men to turn into rats.

It isn’t hard to find evil in this world. Evil is always more easily imagined than good, somehow.

I shall pray for your soul,' promised Nessarose. I shall wait for your shoes,' Elphie answered.

In the lives of children, pumpkins turn into coaches, mice and rats turn into men. When we grow up, we realize it is far more common for men to turn into rats.

I take responsibility only for the future, not the past. The past can't hurt you the way the future can.

I was just about to begin writing Mirror Mirror, within about a week of it, when September 11, 2001 happened. I found myself incapable of caring about fiction-making for a number of months.

I like classical music of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and I adore Bach above all.