At some point as adults we cease to be our parents' children and we become our children's parents instead.

Probably careful plotting reflects my personality. I am meticulous by nature. I can't imagine speed-writing anything that happens to pop into my head.

I love sports, as all Bostonians seem to. I love books and movies, as all writers seem to.

The interior of a teenager’s mind is an endless war between Stupid and Clever.

Predisposition is not predestination.

An emotion is a thought, yes, an idea, but it is also a sensation, an ache in your body. Desire, love, hate, fear, repulsion - you feel these things in your muscle and bones, not just in your mind.

no one worth knowing can be quite known, no one worth possessing can be quite possessed

You know, being confident isn't the same as being right.

We move through time like a man in a rowboat, looking back even as we move forward.

Good stories are driven by conflict, tension, and high stakes.

You can write a great book and be ignored. Literary history is full of classics that were under-appreciated in their own time.

We didn't start the fireIt was always burningSince the world's been turningWe didn't start the fireNo we didn't light itBut we tried to fight it

Beauty that shocks you, parts that none will trust, Wit that can creep, and pride that licks the dust.

American education has been littered with failed fads and foolish ideas for the past century.

There's a ton of potential to do something absolutely loopy with a world that you create and characters that you are literally surgically constructing.

I'm so used to talk-show hosts just giving you a sound bite and not really being interested.

Evil hiding among us is an ancient theme.

In love, you pay as you leave.

No one can read with profit that which he cannot learn to read with pleasure.

I'm not really a science-fiction fan, I quite like the idea of getting away from the science-fiction side of it, for two episodes. It was lovely, it was a super story and great fun.

Today never feels like it will be history, but it will. And more likely than not, you will look back and realize that you should have known.