If you say, Well, OK, I don't believe in God. There's no evidence of God, then you're missing the stars in the sky and you're missing the sunrises and sunsets and you're missing the fact that bees pollinate all these crops and keep us alive and the way that everything seems to work together. Everything is sort of built in a way that to me suggests intelligent design.

A cowardly leader is the most dangerous of men.

I never saw any of my dad's stories. My mother said he had piles and piles of manuscripts.

What is writing? Writing is telepathy.

Las personas con un alto nivel de tolerancia al aburrimiento tienen tiempo de sobra para pensar.

I'm afraid of all kinds of things. I'm afraid of failing at whatever story I'm writing - that it won't come up for me, or that I won't be able to finish it.

Harry Potter is about confronting fears, finding inner strength and doing what is right in the face of adversity. Twilight is about how important it is to have a boyfriend.