The night swallowed him up like a thieving fox.

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.

He who doesn’t want to face his challenges shall always face challenges!

In the oddity or maybe the miracle of life, the roots of something new frequently lie in the decaying husks of something old.

We fail in the work of grace and love when there is too much of us and not enough of God.

The truth about parenting is that the reality of our lives needs to be enough.

Religion is just mind control.

What, then, remains but that we still should cry, For being born, and, being born, to die?

'Brokeback Mountain' takes all your conceptions of America, and the Western, and cowboys, and sexuality, and love, and it stirs them all up.

Nothing in life is more liberating than to fight for a cause larger than yourself, something that encompasses you but is not defined by your existence alone.

I am enjoying my face changing, as well as realizing that at the same time, as you get older, the machine isn't as well-oiled as it was.

Making records is fun. It's not some big statement. You're allowed to make mistakes.