If I were omnipotent and omnibenevolent I wouldn't be so damn ineffable.

I've always thought fairies are like mushrooms, you trip over them when you're not thinking about them, but they're hard to spot when you're searching for them.

It doesn't matter. I have books, new books, and I can bear anything as long as there are books.

Before I got glasses, I thought Monet was the world's only realist landscape painter.

Magic isn't inherently evil. But it does seem to be terribly bad for people.

Reading is awesome and flexible and fits around chores and earning money and building the future and whatever else I’m doing that day. My attitude towards reading is entirely Epicurean—reading is pleasure and I pursue it purely because I like it.

One of the things I've always liked about science fiction is the way it makes you think about things, and look at things from angles you'd never have thought about before.