...because where we are is always the most important place.

You don't win races by wishing, you win them by running faster than everyone else does.

We have to build the Republic of Heaven where we are, because for us there is no elsewhere.

There's a hunger for stories in all of us, adults too. We need stories so much that we're even willing to read bad books to get them, if the good books won't supply them.

Disney is a huge presence when it comes to fairy tales because he’s made of them such brilliant artifacts in terms of movie-making. But it’s very hard to ignore what he’s done to them. I'm not interested in denigrating Disney or even commenting on him very much. I'm more interested in seeing what I can do with the stories myself.

There are some themes, some subjects, too large for adult fiction; they can only be dealt with adequately in a children's book.

I have stolen ideas from every book I have ever read.