Genuinely social people never ceased to amaze him. Their brains seemed to generate an inexhaustible fund of things to say, naturally, with no effort, out of nothing at all.

I mean, when you're tired of book reviews, you're tired of life.

Stop looking for the next secret door that is going to lead you to your real life. Stop waiting. This is it: there's nothing else.

I feel very conscious of my influences. T.H. White is very important for me.

Book tours are excellent things, and one is lucky to get to go on one, but they have a way of leeching away one's will to live.

Most people are blind to magic. They move thru a blank and empty world. They’re bored with their lives and there’s nothing they can do about it. They’re eaten alive by longing and they’re dead before they die.

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