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

Because if you don't stand up for the stuff you don't like, when they come for the stuff you do like, you've already lost.

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

I was the kind of person who knew what he wanted to do; I wanted to write, I wanted not to be in school, and I felt that university would just be spending another four years of my life before I could write.

On the whole, stories don't write themselves.

She really was pretty, for a grown-up person, but when you are seven, beauty is an abstraction, not an imperative. I wonder what I would have done if she had smiled at me like that now: whether I would have handed my mind or my heart or my identify to her for the asking, as my father did.

Never trust a demon. He has a hundred motives for anything he does... ninety-nine of them, at least, are malevolent.