There's always a story. It's all stories, really. The sun coming up every day is a story. Everything's got a story in it. Change the story, change the world.

Joy is to fun what the deep sea is to a puddle. It’s a feeling inside that can hardly be contained.

Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.

It's still magic even if you know how it's done.

It's a terrible thing for a man when his woman gangs up on him wi' a toad

Learnin’ how not to do things is as hard as learning how to do them.

Witches were a bit like cats. They didn’t much like one another’s company, but they did like to know where all the other witches were, just in case they needed them.

This book had two authors, and they were both the same person.

It's an unfair world, Child. Be glad you have friends.

You can't not help people just because they're stupid or forgetful or unpleasant... If I don't help them, who will?

Rain don't fall on a with if she doesn't want it to, although personally I prefer to get wet and be thankful.""Thankful for what?" said Tiffany."That I'll get dry later.

I feel as though the world is a friendly boy walking along in the sun.

Correlation is not cause, it is just a 'music of chance'.

If you hurt Muse, I will hunt you down, use every rusted weapon I own, cut off your precious parts and feed them to the hellhounds." Ryder

I sold a book six years after I left an MFA program. In between, there was a lot of endurance of poverty and a lot of fighting off doubt. It's all a part of the process of being or becoming a writer.

One question always leads to another question. Some things are better to wonder about.

[Fences] is just a great play to bring to the screen.

I feel very strongly that SpaceX would not have been able to get started, nor would we have made the progress that we have, without the help of NASA.

No writer need feel sorry for himself if he writes and enjoys it, even if he doesn't get paid.

When you traffic in monsters, that's the risk you run, that you'll find one too monstrous to stomach.

When I first started working it was as if I didn't understand myself. The fact that I didn't understand myself was tied up with not understanding where I came from, where I began.