It's a wonderful thing, as a writer, to be given parameters and walls and barriers.

There is something about riding a unicorn, for those people who still can, which is unlike any other experience: exhilarating, and intoxicating, and fine.

I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else.

Loyalty was a great thing, but no lieutenants should be forced to choose between their leader and a circus with elephants.

But there was a kitten on my pillow, and it was purring in my face and vibrating gently with every purr, and, very soon, I slept.

I’m an author. We don’t want to lead. We don’t need to follow. We stay home and make stuff up and write it down and send it out into the world, and get inside people’s heads. Perhaps we change the world and perhaps we don’t. We never know. We just make stuff up.

I thought, I'm going to die. And, thinking that, I was determined to live.