You get on with your own life. Lettie gave it to you. You just have to grow up and try and be worth it.

I watch my heart disappearing into her rosebud mouth. My Valentine's jest somehow seems less funny.

I believe we have an obligation to read for pleasure, in private and in public places. If we read for pleasure, if others see us reading, then we learn, we exercise our imaginations. We show others that reading is a good thing.

Writing imaginative tales for the young is like sending coals to Newcastle. For coals.

Yes. Growing up is highly overrated. Just be an author.

All fiction is a process of imagining: whatever you write, in whatever genre or medium, your task is to make things up convincingly and interestingly and new.

I don't think I'm mainstream. I think what I am is lots and lots of different cults. And when you get lots and lots of small groups who like you a lot, they add up to a big group without ever actually becoming mainstream.