When you are a king, you may make as many ridiculous laws as you like. That is what being a king is all about.

They were always on the move.But in truth said bull we are all going nowhere

[A businessmen in plane after 9\11] asked me, "What are you working on now?" And I said I was writing a story about a mouse who tries to save a princess. I was mortified. Here the world is falling down around us, and I'm trying to tell the story about a mouse who saves a princess. I said "It doesn't matter at all now."

Love is in all of the books, and that's the connective tissue between them. There's a lot of hope in me; I can feel it. These stories are balls of light for me.

I am just always, always paying attention - waiting for the words, or image, or name that will be the beginning of a story.

The undoing is almost always more difficult than the doing.

I need to write, and I can't write when I'm on the road.