He laughed, tried to make it into a cough, inhaled at exactly the wrong moment, and then really did cough.

The story is always better than your ability to write it. My belief about this is that if you ever get to the point that you think you've done a story justice, you're in the wrong business.

When they finished laughing they were on their way to being not just friends, but the dearest of friends, the sort of friends whose lives are shaped by the friendship.

Because she was a princess she had a pegasus.

The story is always better than your ability to write it.

I advise those who want to become writers to study veterinary medicine, which is easier. You don't want to be a writer unless you have no choice - and if you have no choice, good luck to you.

There are things you don't want to know you can do

My capacity for invention is flash hot stark, I thought. Sucker sunshade. Disembodied radar-reconnaissance. Not to mention Bitter Chocolate Death and Killer Zebras. Pity about the rest of me.

Perhaps it is a human thing, to look upon such beauty and fail to encompass it.

[Harry] had always suffered from a vague restlessness, a longing for adventure that she told herself severely was the result of reading too many novels when she was a small child.

It is a much more straightforward thing to be a dog, and a dog's love, once given, is not reconsidered.

We ourselves are made of Stardust.

Real freedom is creative, proactive, and will take me into new territories. I am not free if my freedom is predicated on reacting to my past.

Given the billions of neurons, this means there are as many connections in a single cubic centimeter of brain tissue as there are stars in the Milky Way galaxy.

I remember growing up with television, from the time it was just a test pattern, with maybe a little bit of programming once in a while.

I want to teach men the sense of their existence, which is the Superman, the lightning out of the dark cloud man.

Nowhere so busy a man as he there was And yet he seemed busier than he was.

I teach the art of turning anguish into delight.

Who climbs the grammar-tree, distinctly knows Where noun, and verb, and participle grows.

To make a film, the final big collaborator that you have is the composer.

The more you kick me when I'm down, the more it truly helps.