Adults are locked into car payments and divorces and work. They haven't got time to think fresh.

I owe everything I am and everything I will ever be to books.

If books could have more, give more, be more, show more, they would still need readers who bring to them sound and smell and light and all the rest that can’t be in books. The book needs you.

Patience, he thought. So much of this was patience - waiting, and thinking and doing things right. So much of all this, so much of all living was patience and thinking.

We make a mistake in thinking we own pets - the animals open their lives up and make us a part of them.

Do what you can as you can. Trouble, problems, will come no matter what you do , and you must respond as they come.

A book is a friend. You can never have too many.

I tried to contain myself... but I escaped!

Read like a wolf eats and write every day. Every. Single. Day.

Books make me feel safe. Books make me feel normal.

Things seemed to go back and forth between reality and imagination--except that it was all reality.

Blow by blow a giant is knocked down.

In the village, a sage should go about Like a bee, which, not harmingFlower, colour or scent, Flies off with the nectar.

I don't believe in psychology.

A generic vampire tale in the Underworld vein that comes closer to the infamous Van Helsing than a memorable re-interpretation of a legendary monster.

I think there are school teachers who are on the exact same mission as me.

I really struggle to get up in the morning, but I also get my best ideas really late at night, when I'm trying to sleep.

There's no such thing as "just a domestic".

Happiness depends on what happens; joy does not.

The military has been tremendously important in the past during catastrophes and in protecting the population. But it shouldn't become an auxiliary police force.

We are all in a race for dear life: that is to say, we are fugitives from death.