Growing up is the greatest adventure of all.

To live is to travel, on a voyage more epic than the odysseys of myth – not from place to place, but through the poignant strangeness of time.

Music is a language – and language, at its finest, should be music.

Going to sleep is an adventure: you never know where your dreams will take you.

Sometimes, the inessential is essential.

Somewhere beyond the pain, you turn around and realize that life is beautiful.

There are three certainties in a writer’s life: death, taxes, and rejection letters.

There is more magic in our own world than in any world of fantasy.

Behind every novel is a greater story of how it came to be published.

We live in the most epic of fantasy worlds.

Just because it’s imaginary, doesn’t mean it’s not real.

The past is fantasy, and the future is science fiction.

History is the diary of humankind; to forget it is to try to navigate the future with no memory of the past.

Compared to art, all other professions are but chores.