All great literature has an uncreeded and luminous theology behind it... Art [is] a form of active prayer.

In death, as in sleep, I am all things.

Romance novels satisfy a very specific fantasy of romantic love that seems to be a powerful part of the female psyche.

I believe all stories are love stories, and there are kinds and kinds of love, so I will always write about love, but not necessarily romance.

I don't smile. Why tempt her to friendship?

What we see, we see and seeing is changing

Urging humans to be superhumans, on pain of death and torture, is the urging of terrible self-abasement at their repeated and inevitable failure to keep the rules.

If life was what you made of it, then it could not be made for you.

What if I told you that I put my whole life into Tintin?

I don't rhyme right now, but I may ten years from now.

Seventeen publishers rejected the manuscript, at which time we knew we had something pretty hot.

It seems safe to say that significant discovery, really creative thinking, does not occur with regard to problems about which the thinker is lukewarm.

There is always room in your life for thinking bigger, pushing limits and imagining the impossible.