Books are a uniquely portable magic.

When a good writer is having fun, the audience is almost always having fun too.

My books depend on someone in danger, putting pieces together and figuring things out. They do a lot of thinking, and that gets lost in the movie.

A coward judges all he sees by what he is.

You know, small children take it as a matter of course that things will change every day and grown-ups understand that things change sooner or later and their job is to keep them from changing as long as possible. It’s only kids in high school who are convinced they’re never going to change. There’s always going to be a pep rally and there’s always going to be a spectator bus, somewhere out there in their future.

You don't always talk with your mouth. Sometimes what you say with your mouth hardly matters at all. You have to signify

...women are better at keeping secrets, but men are more comfortable with them.