Reality is a fragile thing.

There are not so many mythical creatures from Inkheart.

The sea always filled her with longing, though for what she was never sure.

believe me. Sometimes when life looks to be at its grimmest, there's a light hidden at the heart of things. Clive Barker, Abarat

Second, there are so many magical places in books that you cant go to, like Hogwarts and Middle Earth, so I wanted to set a story in a place where children can actually go.

A library book, I imagine, is a happy book.

You know what they say: When people start burning books they'll soon burn human beings.

Books have to be heavy because the whole world's inside them.

I have two Iceland horses, a very hairy dog called Looney, and a guinea pig.

Which of us has not felt that the character we are reading in the printed page is more real than the person standing beside us?

If I was a book, I would like to be a library book, so I would be taken home by all different sorts of kids.

Love is the beauty, the flower, the fragrance, and the attractive force of our soul.

What must it be like for a little boy to read that daddy never loved mummy?

Religion is separate from the institution of the state.

I love music, I make films with music, I eat with music, I sleep with music, I think with music. Music makes me dream, it strengthens my creativity.

Be calm. Be Zen. You are Buddha.

So great and boundless is God's wisdom that he knows right well how to use evil instruments to do good.

I love doing sitcoms and I love performing in front of a live audience, so [Payne] was a really fun experience.

I am one of those who hold that poetry is never so blithe as in a wanton and irregular subject.

He led quite a great life, ... He was an Old Testament figure railing against the establishment - a Jewish guy from New York who became a Buddhist, a poet, a musician.

I became frustrated with myself for not being as sturdy and unquestioning as I knew a man in my position should be.