Might have, could have, may have, should have—the haves and have nots reduced to pointless possibilities.

Deception is mostly a game we play with ourselves.

I am incomplete without my work. I am so closely bound to it, so much identified by it, that without it I think I would crumble into dust and drift away.

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

On the other hand, I still approach each book with the same basic plan in mind - to put some people under severe stress and see how they hold up.

Cats can do whatever they want, whenever they want, without regard to what anyone says or does. Rather like Princesses.

After all, you put a lot into creating a universe and everything that goes with it, and it seems a shame to use it only once.