It's funny how close the past is, sometimes. Sometimes it seems as if you could almost reach out and touch it. Only who really wants to?

Laughter... is like a hurricane: once it reaches a certain point, it becomes self-feeding, self-supporting. You laugh not because the jokes are funny but because your own condition is funny.

I think most of us are fascinated by the macabre and by the weird and even the nastiness that comes along.

Kids, fiction is the truth inside the lie, and the truth of this fiction is simple enough: the magic exists.

Memory is the basis of every journey.

Writing good dialogue is art as well as craft.

Kids absolutely not reading. I think it's because they're so screen-oriented [TVs, computers, smartphones]. They do read - girls in particular read a lot. They have a tendency to go toward the paranormal, romances, Twilight and stuff like that. And then it starts to taper off because other things take precedence, like the Kardashian sisters.