Reading a fantasy book is a commitment...a commitment to adventure...a commitment to bravery. You make that commitment and you reap the benefits...of epicness.

But language is wine upon his lips

Who in their infinite wisdom decreed that Little League uniforms be white? Certainly not a mother.

Assume responsibility for outcomes as well as for the processes and people you work with. How you achieve results will shape the kind of person you become.

[On President Kennedy's assassination Nov. 22, 1963:] Something dreadful is going to happen to the president today.

A nonreader is somebody standing there in a blindfold.

Irony is based on insecurity; people like to not like things because they don't understand them.

I am by nature a worried optimist.

In every pang that rends the heart the Man of Sorrows has a part.

Here's the thing, for me at least: this is a huge genre now. It wasn't always so. Not so many years ago, it wasn't so. There is a tremendous diversity in fantasy today.

I firmly believe that there is a God. I firmly believe that there is a Heaven. And I firmly believe that if you go there, it's gonna be great.