I believe that stories are incredibly important, possibly in ways we don't understand, in allowing us to make sense of our lives, in allowing us to escape our lives, in giving us empathy and in creating the world that we live in.

She was also an adult, and when adults fight children, adults always win.

For me, closing libraries is the equivalent of eating your seed corn to save a little money.

There are so many places we have not yet seen. So many people still to meet.

I like airplanes. I like anywhere that isn't a proper place. I like in betweens.

You don't get explanations in real life. You just get moments that are absolutely, utterly, inexplicably odd.

Monsters come in all shapes and sizes, Some of them are things people are scared of. Some of them are things that look like things people used to be scared of a long time ago. Sometimes monsters are things people should be scared of, but they aren't.