Halloween isn't the only time for ghosts and ghost stories. In Victorian Britain, spooky winter's tales were part of the Christmas season, often told after dinner, over port or coffee.

Make sure your message is clear, yet that you are faithful to its complexity.

What matters are those ordinary acts of kindness and of love, not vaulting ambition with its attendant hubris and smugness.

Throughout history the exemplary teacher has never been just an instructor in a subject; he is nearly always its living advertisement.

The world is a library of strange and wonderful books, and sometimes we just need to go prowling through the stacks.

I sometimes lie awake at night and try to imagine what would be the best period in history to spend one's seventy-odd years.

Science fiction is, after all, the art of extrapolation.

Order and surprise: these are two intertwined elements that make for any great library or collection.

Best selling authors are always worth listening to, even if you choose to ignore their advice.

I am shocked that we seemed to have learned nothing, absolutely nothing, from Vietnam.

I think the essence of [Kurt] Vonnegut's humanism lay in his emphasis on human kindness as, so to speak, our saving grace.

Glory to the Great God of wonders!

Each one of us is responsible for reducing the negative potential of every situation we have to face.

I had chosen to use my work as a reflection of my values.

L'amor che move il sole e l'altre stelle (The love that moves the sun and the other stars)

I am amazed and thrilled and unbelievably proud about my team's performance.

I blundered into writing.

For me, the lives of children and teens are interesting - they are always changing. There's just so much to sort through. All of this makes for good plots and complex characters.

We knew our strengths and played up our assets. But we couldn't see what made us unique enough for someone to really love us.

I don’t want to be a person with full hands, resting from dreams, but a person full of dreams unable to rest his hands.

Be great in act, as you have been in thought.