There's a special gut-check moment the first time you write a scene in which somebody casts a spell.

We have reached the point where ignorance and neglect are the best we can hope for in a ruler.

Everybody wanted to be the hero of their own story. Nobody wanted to be comic relief.

You don’t learn about yourself by being alone, you learn about yourself from other people.

I've only read three books by Stephen King. When I was 10 I read 'The Long Walk,' one of his pseudonymous Bachman books. In my early 20s, while trapped on a family vacation, I read 'The Dark Half,' which taught me a word I have never forgotten: psychopomp. Now I have read '11/22/63.'

Oddly, the meanings of books are defined for me much more by their beginnings and middles than they are by their endings.

A big silvery janitor. Penny, this can’t be how the universe works.” “In the Order we call it ‘inverse profundity.’ We’ve observed it in any number of cases. The deeper you go into the cosmic mysteries, the less interesting everything gets.