Wendy? Darling? Light, of my life. I'm not gonna hurt ya. I'm just going to bash your brains in.

You might question a winkle - a feeling that came to you right out of the blue - but you didn’t question knowing.

Listening to it was like having a mud-slimed piece of silk drawn lightly back and forth across her face.

The first draft of a book—even a long one—should take no more than three months, the length of a season.

My view is that organized religion is a very dangerous tool that's been misused by a lot of people.

I think that friendship always makes us feel such sweet gratitude, because the world almost always seems like a very hard desert, and the flowers that grow there seem to grow against such high odds.

Kids know they can't make it alone, yet at the same time, built into each one of us, is a survival ethic. It says, "Nobody cares and you have to look out for yourself and if you don't, you'll die." These two things work against each other. I think most kids are very frightened of their parents, and that's what all fairy tales reflect: Parents will fail you and you'll be left on your own. But, of course, everything comes out right in the end and the parents take you back.