Voyaging great distances -- through forests, from island to island, across plains and into the mountains -- is all about finding ourselves.

Your life is a blank, and you're barely a shade across it.

Any writer takes inspiration from what they read and watch, and over their career works on forming their own voice. I think it was probably Stephen King who made me want to become a writer.

If you do not fear God, then fear your dreams, because they're how He talks to you.

Do you have to feel something for it to be real or mean anything? Can you touch your dreams, taste your imagination.

Growing up closes so many doors. The modern world doesn't allow for miracles, so we don't see them. It's a very precious gift, an open mind, but it's not passive. You've got to nurture it like a bed of roses; otherwise it will wither and die. Make sure you don't close off your mind to things you find strange. Sometimes they may be the only truth.

Real fear is like intense pain. It's there to warn you something's truly wrong.