A here exists only in relation to a there, not the other way around. There's this only because there's that; if we don't look up, we'll never know what's down. Think of it, boy. We find ourselves only by looking what we're not. You can't put your feet on the ground until you've touched the sky.

I've written books that have taken me fifteen years, from first sentence to last, and some that only take three or four months.

The joke is the purest, most essential form of storytelling. Every word has to count.

As long as you are dreaming, there is always a way out

He knew that his wings could ignite at any moment, but the closer he came to touching the fire, the more he sensed that he was fulfilling his destiny. As he put it in his journal that night: If I mean to save my life, then I have to come within an inch of destroying it.

You see, the interesting thing about books, as opposed, say, to films, is that it's always just one person encountering the book, it's not an audience, it's one to one.

...once you fell in love with her, you loved her until the day you died.