Partly because I get such astonishingly nice fans.

According to my daughters, my most irritating habit is asking for cups of tea.

'Doctor Who' was the first mythology that I learned, before ever I ran into Greek or Roman or Egyptian mythologies.

I feel like I am involved in an obscure and complex version of poker in a pitch-dark room, with blank cards, for infinite stakes, with a dealer who won't tell me the rules, and who smiles all the time.

If you want to imagine the future, imagine a boy and his dog and his friends. And a summer that never ends.

I believe that anyone who claims to know what's going on will lie about the little things too.

Most people don't realize how important librarians are. I ran across a book recently which suggested that the peace and prosperity of a culture was solely related to how many librarians it contained. Possibly a slight overstatement. But a culture that doesn't value its librarians doesn't value ideas and without ideas, well, where are we?