Growing up is the greatest adventure of all.

There is more magic in our own world than in any world of fantasy.

We live in the most epic of fantasy worlds.

Just because it's imaginary, doesn't mean it's not real.

To live is to travel, on a voyage more epic than the odysseys of myth - not from place to place, but through the poignant strangeness of time.

Going to sleep is an adventure: you never know where your dreams will take you.

The past is fantasy, and the future is science fiction.

Music is a language - and language, at its finest, should be music.

Somewhere beyond the pain, you turn around and realize that life is beautiful.

There are three certainties in a writer's life: death, taxes, and rejection letters.

Behind every novel is a greater story of how it came to be published.

Modern civilisation has based its specific foundation on the principle of liberty which states that man is not a mere instrument to be used by others but rather a main autonomous living being.

And yet women-good women--frightened me because they eventually wanted your soul, and what was left of mine, I wanted to keep.

The hell what you USED to do! It's what you're doing NOW and what you're GOING to do.

Happy people are rarely interesting.

The possibility of disaster remains horrific to me. Like when you know everything's about to go wrong in a way that's not controllable or knowable.

The struggle between Liberty and Authority is the most conspicuous feature in the portions of history with which we are earliest familiar; particularly in that of Greece, Rome, and England

The advantage of the incomprehensible is that it never loses its freshness.

So many of my friends, old friends I haven't seen in years, made their way out there and got lost, then found their way back. That seems believable to me.

I have consciously not taken the role of a gangster, which has been offered to me far too many times.

If you feel like there's something out there that you're supposed to be doing, if you have a passion for it, then stop wishing and just do it.