In the bedroom time I have generated thoughts, and then in the studio I take those thoughts and try to shape them into something.

In some ways I'm very structured.

I felt ten years old and a thousand years old, but I didn't know how to be my own age. I had never felt that way before, but now I feel like that a lot.

I love when I'm trying to do something I don't know how to do, and it kind of figures itself out along the way. And that means messing up a lot. That means throwing away a lot of drawings.

I generally have an idea where I want to go, but I don't know how I'm going to get there.

A long time ago, I had an idea to make a book for preschoolers who had older siblings who were going to school.

I had a general outline of subjects. The way I start my days is my husband brings me a thermos of coffee up to the bedroom.

I knew what infinity was. Being a previous art student, I knew about some art concepts.

Some of it just involved thinking about, for example, the different kinds of science, what chemistry is.

I [drinking coffee] for about an hour, I get dressed and go down in my studio, and that's a different kind of working.

The morning time is also a time when I look at what I did yesterday. That's often a jumping-off point for today.

Death. It's around more than people realize. Because no one wants to talk about it or hear about it. It's too sad. Too painful. Too hard. The list of reasons is endless.

Science can improve lives in ways that are elegant in design and moving in practice.

I've got all the money I'll ever need, if I die by four o'clock.

Badminton is like ballet dancing. It requires a lot of control, strength, mind play and measured movement

The grass as bristly and stout as chives and me wondering when the ground will break and me wondering how anything fragile survives

My family was poor, my father drove a cab for a living, but we felt normal because everybody else was in the same boat.

The need to find meaning...is as real as the need for trust and for love, for relations with other human beings.

We reach the goal not by the stairs, but by the lift..... God pledges his promised righteousness to those who will stop trying to save themselves. Change your thoughts and you change your world.

Every novel generates its own climate, when you get going.

What a writer's obituary should read - he wrote the books, then he died.