You cant be too careful on a skateboard.

And in real life endings aren't always neat, whether they're happy endings, or whether they're sad endings.

Sometimes the things presented to us as choices aren't choices at all.

Fantasy has a better chance of lasting than a lot of other things. The Hobbit and the Narnia books, they seem to get handed down father to son, mother to daughter. Because they're set in a fantasy world, they can remain relevant.

I’ve always said to people, "I don’t care what you call me as long as the checks don’t bounce and the family gets fed." But I never saw myself that way. I just saw myself as a novelist.

What can be done when you’re eleven can often never be done again.

The monster nevers dies.