I think for a long time, I was paralyzed by some of my hopes and ideals for what my life was going to be like. I had this perfect vision of how my life should go, but it seemed - it was - impossible to realize, so I sat around for a long, long time doing almost nothing at all.

And I'm not as young as I once was. At my age, I don't have time to be bored.

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

I studied the cello for a long time, from when I was little up through college.

The process of learning is a nonstop orgy of wonderment.

It turns out that there is something that can compete with free: easy.

More than fantasy or even science fiction, Ray Bradbury wrote horror, and like so many great horror writers he was himself utterly without fear, of anything. He wasn't afraid of looking uncool - he wasn't scared to openly love innocence, or to be optimistic, or to write sentimentally when he felt that way.