Once upon a time, novelists of the 19th century, such as Charles Dickens, published in serial form.

You meet the same people on the way down that you meet on the way up, but you're going the other way.

Moira was like an elevator with open sides. She made us dizzy.

Every novel is-at the beginning-the same opening of a door onto a completely unknown space.

Time is compressed like the fist I close on my knee... I hold inside it the clues and solutions and the power for what I must do now.

You're never going to kill storytelling, because it's built into the human plan. We come with it.

Nature is to zoos as God is to churches.