Continuity isn't actually something that I ever worry about. You use it where you need to, and you don't use it where you don't need to.

When things get tough, this is what you should do: Make good art. I'm serious. Husband runs off with a politician -- make good art. Leg crushed and then eaten by a mutated boa constrictor -- make good art. IRS on your trail -- make good art. Cat exploded -- make good art. Someone on the Internet thinks what you're doing is stupid or evil or it's all been done before -- make good art.

Fictions are merely frozen dreams, linked images with some semblance of structure. They are not to be trusted, no more than the people who create them.

I suppose the point you grow up is the point you let the dreams go.

None of this is truly happening," he said to Shadow. He sounded miserable. "It's all in your head. Best not to think of it.

The first author I remember being obsessed by, actually realizing 'I like the way he writes and I like the way he tells stories,' was C.S. Lewis and the 'Narnia' books.

If there's one thing that a study of history has taught us, it is that things can always get worse.