Be boring, knowing everything. You have to give all that stuff up if you're going to muck about here.

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

Making fiction for children, making books for children, isn't something you do for money. It's something you do because what children read and learn and see and take in changes them and forms them, and they make the future. They make the world we're going to wind up in, the world that will be here when we're gone. Which sounds preachy (and is more than you need for a quotebyte) but it's true. I want to tell kids important things, and I want them to love stories and love reading and love finding things out. I want them to be brave and wise. So I write for them.

When angels go bad they are worse than anyone else. Remember Lucifer used to be an angel.

And, selfish and scared, I wonder how much more he has to give.

I think hell is something you carry around with you, not somewhere you go.

There was once a young man who wished to gain his Heart’s Desire.