In order to go on with our lives, we are always capable of making the ominous into the merely strange.

The hardest thing was learning to write. I was 13, and the only writing I had done was for Social Studies. It consisted of copying passages right out of the encyclopedia

Writing is revision. All prose responds to work.

Don't worry about being worried. You're heading out on an adventure and you can always change your mind along the way and try something else.

You do the right thing even if it makes you feel bad. The purpose of life is not to be happy but to be worthy of happiness.

among a coward's weapons, cynicism is the nastiest of all

The combination of domesticity and wildness - that's a deep expression

Things were here before you and will be here after you're gone. The geographic features, especially, give you a sense of your own place in the world and in time

I know that to write you have to have stories you want to tell. You have to keep your mind alive, and you have to work hard.

Public education rests precariously on the skill and virtue of the people at the bottom of the institutional pyramid.

Continuity is one of the things I like about New England.

If you like to be immortal, live for others and die for others.

Expectations ruin the pleasures of life. To overcome every bad and appreciate every good, consider every day your last and take no one for granted.

Nothing makes you feel more stupid than finding out you were wrong when you thought you were loved.

The freedom I have as a U.S. citizen is unparalleled. Despite the fact people may not like American passports, having that passport affords me more freedoms than any other passport could.

I've only been in long-term relationships. I've never really dated myself.

I like to stay cozy with my paranoia, not pass her around to my friends and family.

All we really want to do is dance.

The soul is created in a place between Time and Eternity: with its highest powers it touches Eternity, with its lower Time.

The technology in making games and in making anime is really similar. There are common concepts.

Well, my son really loves wildlife. And everytime he draws a polar bear I want to tell him there probably won't any by the time... he's my age. That's kinda hard to deal with.