Kittredge had obviously misjudged her, but he had learned that was the way with most people. The story was never the story, and it surprised you, how much another person could carry.

If you are writing any book about the end of the world, what you are really writing about is what's worth saving about it.

Behind every writer stands a very large bookshelf.

My inventing time is all done under the influence of aerobic exercise. Basically, I do all my thinking while I run.

I grew up during the Cold War, when everything seemed very tenuous. For many years, right up until the fall of the Berlin Wall, I had vivid nightmares of nuclear apocalypse.

We live, we die. Somewhere along the way, if we're lucky, we may find someone to help lighten the load.

This ravishing world. This achingly bittersweet, ravishing world.

I have any number of completely dark obsessions and fascinations, and none of this was present in my profile or my growing profile as a writer.

What strange places our lives can carry us to, what dark passages.

My theory of characterization is basically this: Put some dirt on a hero, and put some sunshine on the villain, one brush stroke of beauty on the villain.

My rule has always been, write the next part of the book that you seem to know well. So I won't necessarily write chapter two after chapter one.

The measure of a Christian is not in the height of his grasp but in the depth of his love

A person who appreciates someone doing something good is also a good person.

At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.

At some point your heart will tell itself what to do.

The man is United - cut him and he bleeds red

A sensible man ought to think about that well being is the best of human blessings, and find out how by his personal thought to derive profit from his sicknesses.

A lot of the time in animation is spent getting the story right - that's something you can't rush.

The real art is in the street, is making the artwork, and for that you have to involve people. The action is actually the artwork.

We have to find the back door to peoples' hearts because the front door is heavily guarded.

I realize that as I get more experience as I get older, my perception changes and that feeds the photograph.