I don’t think I am like other people. I mean on some deep fundamental level. It’s not just being half a twin and reading a lot and seeing fairies. It’s not just being outside when they’re all inside. I used to be inside. I think there’s a way I stand aside and look backwards at things when they’re happening which isn’t normal.

Interlibrary loans are a wonder of the world and a glory of civilization.

You can't do magic with books unless they're very special copies.

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

If the purpose of literature is to illuminate human nature, the purpose of fantastic literature is to do that from a wider perspective. You can say different things about what it means to be human if you can contrast that to what it means to be a robot, or an alien, or an elf.

All farms are much alike everywhere, and all wild places have their own beauty.

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