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

I sat in the dark and thought: There’s no big apocalypse. Just an endless procession of little ones.

Human beings do not like being pushed about by gods. They may seem to, on the surface, but somewhere on the inside, underneath it all, they sense it, and they resent it.

All writers have this vague hope that the elves will come in the night and finish any stories.

Is there any person in the world who does not dream? Who does not contain within them worlds unimagined?

The simplest way to make sure that we raise literate children is to teach them to read, and to show them that reading is a pleasurable activity.

Just go with it. It won't hurt.' I stared at him. Adults only ever said that when it, whatever it happened to be, was going to hurt so much.