Human beings do not relate to written words in the same way that they will relate to spoken words. They do not relate to music in the same way that they do to pictures. It's all different parts of our head, different parts of our minds processing this.

Not knowing everything is all that makes it OK, sometimes.

I loved writing a book in which, in some ways, it's very, very classical, and in some ways I'm breaking lots of rules about what you can do and what you can't do.

I've been inspired by dreams - I've even stolen scenes or images or characters from them.

If you do not value libraries then you do not value information or culture or wisdom. You are silencing the voices of the past and you are damaging the future.

There are accounts that, if we open our hearts to them, will cut us too deeply.

I think I’ll dismember the world and then I’ll dance in the wreckage.