Josh speculated about the hypothetical contents of an imaginary porn magazine for intelligent trees that would be entitled Enthouse.

I guess I was raised in a household with a lot of reverence for the physical sanctity of books. You didn't destroy books.

Though the funny thing about never being asked for anything is that after a while you start to feel like maybe you don’t have anything worth giving.

That was the thing about the world: it wasn't that things were harder than you thought they were going to be, it was that they were hard in ways that you didn't expect.

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

People - me included - want to get excited about books. Good books are a good thing.

I have spent many, many hours reading J.K. Rowling's work. I am a known 'Harry Potter' fan.