But then science is nothing but a series of questions that lead to more questions.

Just because something is a metaphor doesn't mean it can't be real.

She was a beefy young woman and, whatever piece of music she was playing, it was definitely losing.

In all seriousness, people think that it's the ideas that are important. Well, everyone has ideas, all the time. I tend to write mine down and remember them, but at some point you have to apply the bum to the seat and knock out about sixty five thousand words - that's how long a novel is.

Do you think it's possible for an entire nation to be insane?

Money is an unavoidable consequence, but it isn't the reason I write; if it was, I wouldn't have written any of the YA books, because advances in that field are small compared to what I'd got now for an 'adult' DW.

The librarians were mysterious. It was said they could tell what book you needed just by looking at you, and they could take your voice away with a word.