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

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

We live in the most epic of fantasy worlds.

Growing up is the greatest adventure of all.

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.

I wanna know what's going on out there. I'd hate to live my entire life inside the walls as an ignorant!

I believe a woman, in order to be a good wife, must be (among other things) both sensual and maternal.

Truth is weirder than any fiction I've seen.

I'm a very organised and rational and linear thinker and you have to stop all that to write a novel.

Children do better when they feel better.

Even with insects - some can sing, some can't.

Sometimes the people closest to you betray you, and your home isn't a place you can be happy anymore.

In life, do you ever really know if you're missing an opportunity? No, you really don't.

You have the right to claim blessing, healing, protection, freedom, deliverance, because He was unjustly nailed to a cross so you could have a life that is fulfilling.

I have been around a long time and Wall Street has changed a lot.