If I come back, it will be a place, but it won't be a home any longer.

I can believe things that are true and things that aren't true and I can believe things where nobody knows if they're true or not.

Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.

There may be a parallel between woodcuts and radio; radio plays are a living art form everywhere except the USA.

I still love the book-ness of books, the smell of books: I am a book fetishist—books to me are the coolest and sexiest and most wonderful things there are.

You're a big one,[...] a tall drink of water, but I got to tell you, you don't look too bright. I got a son, stupid as a man who bought his stupid at a two-for-one sale, and you remind me of him.

Nobody gets through life without losing a few things on the way.