I know a movie and a book are two different things and you are going do different media in different ways. No author can want a movie to be exactly like the book because then it will be a bad movie.

Crazy people who are judged to be harmless are allowed an enormous amount of freedom ordinary people are denied.

It wasn't so much that he minded telling Leslie that he was afraid to go; it was that he minded being afraid. It was as though he had been made with a great piece missing - one of May Belle's puzzles with this huge gap where somebody's eye should have been. Lord, it would be better to be born without an arm than to go through life with no guts.

This is what art is all about. It is weaving fabric from the feathers you have plucked from your own breast. But no one must ever see the process - only the finished bolt of goods. They must never suspect that that crimson thread running through the pattern is blood.

To fear is one thing. To let fear grab you by the tail and swing you around is another.

You think it's so great to die and make everyone cry and carry on. Well it ain't.

It's like the smarter you are, the more things can scare you.