When you write a story, you’re telling yourself the story,” he said. “When you rewrite, your main job is taking out all the things that are not the story.

Perfect paranoia is perfect awareness.

A person’s never too old for stories. Man and boy, girl and woman, we live for them. - Roland Deschain

God turned out to be a bunch of bad little kids playing interstellar Xbox. Isn't that funny?

I have the world's best job. I get paid to hang out in my imagination all day.

The scariest moment is always just before you start.

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.