The shapes arranged themselves into words, and the words spelled out a delicious and wonderful phrase: Once upon a time.

Men and boys always want to go fight. They are always looking for a reason to go to war. It is the saddest thing. They have this abiding notion that war is fun. And no history lesson will convince them differently.

I don't know what Alison [McGhee] thinks, but I very strongly doubt that we will ever see the parents of Bink or Gollie. However, I do think it would be fun to make Tony Fucile draw portraits of the parental units and have those portraits sitting on Bink's mantel or in Gollie's kitchen. Glowering. A little.

I'm just doing what I've done my whole life, which is talking to people about books and making them read. It's what I do in my friendships. "Here, you have to read this, you have to read this."

You can't always judge people by the things they done. You got to judge them by what they are doing now.

And hope is like love...a ridiculous, wonderful, powerful thing.

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