If you only write when inspired, you may be a fairly decent poet, but you'll never be a novelist.

A library is a place that is a repository of information and gives every citizen equal access to it.

And if there's a moral there, I don't know what it is, save maybe that we should take our goodbyes whenever we can.

The only thing that kept me going was stories. Stories are hope. They take you out of yourself for a bit, and when you get dropped back in, you're different- you're stronger, you've seen more, you've felt more. Stories are like spiritual currency.

Life is sometimes hard. Things go wrong, in life and in love and in business and in friendship and in health and in all other ways that life can go wrong. And when things get tough, this is what you should do. Make good art.

Monsters come in all shapes and sizes, Some of them are things people are scared of. Some of them are things that look like things people used to be scared of a long time ago. Sometimes monsters are things people should be scared of, but they aren't.

I'd love to think that people in the future would gather in theatres, at conventions, and in darkened rooms, and read it out to each other.