For (Levi) Grossman, no books feel more like home than C. S. Lewis’s Chronicles of Narnia, which provide the template for what he likes to read—and how he wants to write.

Instead of the final judgement, what worries me is the final dream.

Well, I don't go out much socially. I don't enjoy going out.

If you don't like your world, question your thoughts about it.

Profound music leads us beyond language...to the dark roots of our scream and the celestial heights of our silence.

The point to keep in mind is that you don't lose fat because you cut calories; you lose fat because you cut out the foods that make you fat-the carbohydrates.

I have a big following among the biogeeks of this world. Nobody ever puts them in books.

I've never dated. I can say this honestly: I don't know what it's like to date. But also, how am I going to date? I'm not in one state long enough.

When it's done, it's done. And no one will know until it's done.

You can have financial strength, professional strength, emotional strength but for me without spiritual strength none of the rest of it matters.

It's a roll of the dice when you're a first time director so I prefer to work with people that know more than I do, but that happens less and less as you get older.