If he'd been a hero, he would have taken the opportunity to say, "That's what I call sorted!" Since he wasn't a hero, he threw up.

People think that stories are shaped by people. In fact, it's the other way around.

When I was a kid, I read the science-fiction shelves, and I read the fantasy shelves.

My advice is this. For Christ's sake, don't write a book that is suitable for a kid of 12 years old, because the kids who read who are 12 years old are reading books for adults. I read all of the James Bond books when I was about 11, which was approximately the right time to read James Bond books.

There are times in life when people must know when not to let go. Balloons are designed to teach small children this.

There are millions of chords. There are millions of numbers. And everyone forgets the one that is a zero. But without the zero, numbers are just arithmetic. Without the empty chord, music is just noise.

Just to keep bad dreams at bay, she took a swig out of a bottle that smelled of apples and happy brain-death.