Well, I think that as a country, we've drifted away from appreciating the importance of imagination.

Who would you be but who you are?

The future is an ever-shifting maze of possibilities until it becomes the present. The future I have shown you tonight is not yet fixed. But it is more likely to become so with the passing of every day because nothing is being done to turn it aside. If you would change it, do as I have told you.

I want you, as a reader, to experience what I experience, to let that other world, that imaginary world that I have created, tell you things about the real world.

Why pretend to be something you're not? If you have to be someone, be someone no one else is.

If you do not love what you do, if you are not appropriately grateful for the chance to create something magical each time you sit down at the computer or with a pencil and paper in hand, somewhere along the way your writing will betray you.

What I want to write about has changed somewhat, and the scope of the storytelling has changed accordingly.