America was, to them, the place that good people went to when they died. They were prepared to believe just about anything could happen in America.

Every now and then I'll do little things, a short story or something, that doesn't have any fantastical elements, but mostly I like the power of playing God and I like to imagine things.

People ask me what my predictions are for publishing and how digital is changing things and I tell them my only real prediction is that is it's all changing. Amazon, Google and all of those things probably aren't the enemy. The enemy right now is simply refusing to understand that the world is changing.

"Some things may change," said Wednesday, abruptly. "People, however... People stay the same."

We owe it to each other to tell stories.

It seemed to Coraline that it was crouching, and staring down at her, as if it were not really a house but only the idea of a house—and the person who had had the idea, she was certain, was not a good person.

People want to forget the impossible. It makes their world safer.