I used to get my best ideas from being bored, and now, if I even think I'm being faintly bored, I have two million Twitter followers I can engage with. It's great, but I also think it's important to be able to let your thoughts flow and percolate.

Books are defensive, not offensive (unless you're the puzzled adult trying to make the kid with the book interact).

This is a work of fiction. Still, given an infinite number of possible worlds, it must be true on one of them. And if a story set in an infinite number of possible worlds is true in one of them, then it must be true in all of them. So maybe, it's not as fictional as we think.

Discontent is a good thing: discontented people can modify and improve their worlds, leave them better, leave them different.

A story only matters, I suspect, to the extent that the people in the story change.

We have an obligation to make things beautiful. Not to leave the world uglier than we found it, not to empty the oceans, not to leave our problems for the next generation.

Life and death are different sides of the same coin.