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.

Sleep my little baby-oh Sleep until you waken When you wake you'll see the world If I'm not mistaken... Kiss a lover Dance a measure, Find your name And buried treasure... Face your life Its pain, Its pleasure, Leave no path untaken.

The magic of comics is that there are three people involved in any comic: There is whoever is writing it, and whoever is drawing it, and then there's whoever is reading it, because the really important things in comics are occurring in the panel gutters, they're occurring between panels as the person reading the comics is moving you through, is creating a film in their heads.

Sometimes I wish that just solving the plot problems was enough. And then elves would go and do all the actual work moving the words around.

People populate the darkness; with ghosts, with gods, with electrons, with tales.

Children's fiction is the most important fiction of all.

The short story is still like the novel's wayward younger brother, we know that it's not respectable - but I think that can also add to the glory of it.