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.

Language does not always have to wear a tie and lace-up shoes. The object of fiction isn't grammatical correctness but to make the reader welcome and then tell a story... To make him/her forget, whenever possible, that he/she is reading a story at all.

A dimwit thinks nothing is funny unless it's mean.

and so will the world end, I think, a victim of love rather than hate. For love's ever been the more destructive weapon, sure.

JK Rowling created seven Horcruxes. She put a part of her soul in every book and now her books will live forever

That's not such a bad thing,' he said to me. 'In nightmares we can think the worst. That's what they're for, I guess.

As a species we're fundamentally insane.