The real problem with stories - if you keep them going long enough, they always end in death.

Whereas there are lots of good novels out there; there are a few good movies out there. People have been writing great poems for years, but there aren't a lot of good comics. I like trying to write them.

Once, I was a poet, and, like all poets, I spent too long in the Kingdom of Dreams.

The moonlight was enough. It would do.

His name is Marcus: he is four and a half and possesses that deep gravity and seriousness that only small children and mountain gorillas have ever been able to master.

I see libraries and librarians as frontline soldiers in the war against illiteracy and the lack of imagination.

I just want you to know,' said the girl, coldly, 'that whoever you are and whatever you intend with me, I shall give you no aid of any kind, nor shall I assist you, and I shall do whatever is in my power to frustrate your plans and devices.' And then she added, with feeling, 'Idiot.