She tortured everybody around her, but only because she was more tortured than anyone.

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.

I always hated those fantasy books where, at the end, all the kids had to go home. At the end of a Narnia book, you always got shown the door. Same with The Wizard Of Oz and The Phantom Tollbooth. You get kicked out of your magic land. It's like, "By the way, here's your next surprise: You get to go home!" And the kids are all like, "Yay, we get to go home!" I never bought that. Did anybody buy that?

The problem with growing up is that once you're grown up, the people who aren't grown up aren't fun anymore.

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

He who completes a quest does not merely find something. He becomes something.

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.