I'd rather be a freak than a clone.

The battle of good and evil reduced to a fat woman standing in front of a chocolate shop, saying, Will I? Won’t I? in pitiful indecision.

Everything comes home, my mother used to say; every word spoken, every shadow cast, every footprint in the sand. It can't be helped; it's part of what makes us who we are.

...we do not simply get showered with Hollywood money because we happened to write a little story about wizards one day. It's not winning the lottery. It's a real job, which real people do, and they have the same real problems as other real people.

I have an advanced degree in procrastination and another one in paranoia.

A man who casts no shadow isn't really a man at all.

For me, the magic of Hawaii comes from the stillness, the sea, the stars.