I've never dreamed of a story idea. I have such boring dreams.

Read. Read. Read. Just don't read one type of book. Read different books by various authors so that you develop different styles.

Well, when I was 13, for my bar mitzvah I received my first typewriter. And that was special.

Many adults feel that every children's book has to teach them something.... My theory is a children's book... can be just for fun.

Sometimes it helps to scold yourself, to give yourself advice.

I feel happy to terrify kids.

When I write, I try to think back to what I was afraid of or what was scary to me, and try to put those feelings into books.

The only lesson is, you gotta keep at it.

Everything that has happened to me has been amazing and surprising.

Who is more irrational, the guy who believes in a God he can't see, or a guy who's offended by a God he doesn't believe in?

I've had a very sheltered life. What can happen to you if you stay home writing all day?

Live as if you already are what you wish to become.

Newspapers provided a common culture of aspiration.

If I didn't have so much of this life all wrong I would have gotten it right by now.

When pressure mounts and strain increases everyone begins to show the weaknesses in his makeup. It is up to the Commander to conceal his: above all to conceal doubt, fear, and distrust.

I think in some ways - only in some ways - but in some ways, rock and roll has let me down. It really doesn't leave you a way to grow old gracefully and continue to work.

Doesn't matter. If I would've had a beer before the game, I would've been drunk. So I don't believe in 'if.'

The writers or artists I write about are not necessarily those I care most about (Shakespeare is still my favourite writer) but those whose work I feel has been neglected.

If we would destroy the Christian religion, we must first of all destroy man's belief in the Bible.

Most photographers seem to operate with a pane of glass between themselves and their subjects. They just can't get inside and know the subject.

Telling the truth after proper investigation is the height of courage.