I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes...you're Doing Something.

If you want to imagine the future, imagine a boy and his dog and his friends. And a summer that never ends.

Stories are the things that allow us to persuade each other that we're human.

I think I've got Fear down, but how do I take it all the way up to Terror?

Because,' she said, 'when you're scared but you still do it anyway, that's brave.

I like 'pencil-necked weasel'. It has 'pencil' in it. Pencils are good things. You can draw or write things with pencils. I think it's what you call someone when you're worried that using a long word like 'intellectual' may have too many syllables. It's not something that people who have serious, important things to say call other people.

Going off the grid is always good for me. It's the way that I've started books and finished books and gotten myself out of deadline dooms and things.