I know what it's like to be day and night now; always together, forever apart.

You have to promise you won't fall in love with me.

When you know that someone close to you is going to die, there's a natural tendency to want to spend as much time with them as you can.

By making the place and the people and the feelings real, by the time someone closes the cover of one of my books, they have, hopefully, felt all of the emotions of life.

The movies are fun, but I'm a novelist. In many ways, screenwriting is much easier than writing novels. I find screenplays twenty times easier to write than a novel.

Say I'm a bird! Say it! Say it now!" "You're a bird." "Now say you're a bird too." "If you're a bird, I'm a bird.

It's impossible to protect your kids against disappointment in life.