There are three certainties in a writer's life: death, taxes, and rejection letters.

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.

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

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.

Behind every novel is a greater story of how it came to be published.

Sometimes it's not enough to know what things mean, sometimes you have to know what things don't mean.

Don't you try and go through life worrying about if somebody like you or not. You best be making sure they doing right by you.

It is impossible for a dove to catch a swallow, for a clever man to catch a genius.

For the one and only time I caught a glimpse of a great heart as well as of a great brain.

Rational confidence [is] the just result of knowledge and experience.

Keep your mind open. You may very well learn something new about yourself and your pictures.

It is unethical for any man to tax another man's home to fund his social agenda. Friends don't do that, your enemies will.

You have to go where the story is to report on it. As a journalist, you're essentially running to things that other people are running away from.

At some point around '94 or '95, 'Rolling Stone' said that guitar rock was dead and that the Chemical Brothers were the future. I think that was the last issue of 'Rolling Stone' I ever bought.

Just tell me how to be different in a way that makes sense.