Writing is just building a new world – one character, one place, one maniac at a time.

Read the right books and we can be as wild and worry-free as we've ever wanted to be. No law can stop us reading.

One day, I decided I was going to write books forever.

You have to know your own mind inside out before you can know the minds of others.

The fear of not being remembered is a dangerous thing.

I’m proud to be a writer. I’m doing the job all my heroes did.

One man’s fight is another man’s freedom.

Reality was dawning on him and he hated reality. If you were him, so would you.

No matter what the good boys tell you, criminality is not a level playing field.

Katie soon learned there was a problem with hope.

First time I ever put pen to paper, I had one goal – to build something no one had ever thought of before.

I know all those words, but that sentence makes no sense to me.

The biblical stories are the greatest sacred-inspirations.

...not everyone is willing to defend a position of 'not knowing.' There is no virtue in ignorance for its own sake.

All things want to float.

I consider myself a casualty, one of the many casualties of the war on terror.

We were breaking away from anything that linked us to this world, but by doing that those ideas remained even stronger. Fables represent the basis for what I wanted to say about human beings.

I think almost everything important that's ever happened was unimaginable shortly before it happened. Good things and bad things: ending slavery, ending child labor, women voting, etc.

I am an international leader, the dean of the Arab rulers, the king of kings of Africa and the imam of Muslims, and my international status does not allow me to descend to a lower level.

There are consequences to letting people live out whatever wants or passions they desire.

The revolt against individualism naturally calls artists severely to account, because the artist is of all men the most individual; those who were not have been long forgotten.