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

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

My ultimate goal is to drive people back to the books, when I think of an adaptation.

I'm happy to report that 'The New Press' is still in business to this day. But not thanks to me. I was a really bad publishing intern.

We're wired to expect the world to be brighter and more meaningful and more obviously interesting than it actually is. And when we realize that it isn't, we start looking around for the real world.

You're saying the gods don't have free will." "The power to make mistakes," Penny said. "Only we have that. Mortals

The real problem with being around James was that he was always the hero. And what did that make you? Either the sidekick or the villain.