There will come a time of fire and night, when enemies rise and empires fall, when the stars themselves begin to die.

There is grand romance in The Lord of the Rings. It's an important part of epic literature.

Each book will have a lot of cliffhangers, because I like that.

I think now I'm up to something like 85 different titles that I've published.

The real key is time management and being able to focus on what you need to, on using every available minute to accomplish something that needs to be done.

It was like there was a pile of kindling that was in the back of my imagination just waiting there. Once I lit it, it just flared up and I kept getting ideas and ideas.

The people who make policy decisions should damned well know what they are talking about before they make the decisions. There is nobody who is an expert on cloning who would be afraid after seeing Attack of the Clones.