For every expert there is an equal and opposite expert.

the Real-World was a sprawling mess of a book in need of a good editor.

Comedy was one of those genres that while appearing quite jolly was actually highly dangerous.

Vanity's contribution to Fiction in general was an abundance of cheap labour and the occasional blockbuster, which was accepted into Fiction with an apologetic 'gosh, don't know how that happened'.

I'm sure it's not all hot buttered crumpets out there in the breathing world of asphalt and heartbeats.

What is without dispute...is that the readers need [the BookWorld] just as much as we need them—to bring order to their apparent chaos, if nothing else.

Choosing to know yourself deeply hands you a torch to see beyond yourself, into the future. Into a strong future.

People make decisions, and maybe you don't always agree, but those choices are still their own.

To be a leader you need a lot of people dumb enough to follow.

He who knows himself best esteems himself least.

We are surrounded by story.

Life's always changing. We always are being called to adapt.

Just watching Jack Lemmon made me want to get into this business.

I've named a couple things after Edgar Allan Poe: the cat, and my garden upstate, where I only planted black flowers and purple flowers - and there's a raven statue.

The restraining grace of common sense is the mark of all valid minds.

Your worth consists in what you are and not in what you have.