Growing up is the greatest adventure of all.
Going to sleep is an adventure: you never know where your dreams will take you.
Somewhere beyond the pain, you turn around and realize that life is beautiful.
There is more magic in our own world than in any world of fantasy.
We live in the most epic of fantasy worlds.
The past is fantasy, and the future is science fiction.
Just because it's imaginary, doesn't mean it's not real.
Sometimes, the inessential is essential.
History is the diary of humankind; to forget it is to try to navigate the future with no memory of the past.
Music is a language - and language, at its finest, should be music.
There are three certainties in a writer's life: death, taxes, and rejection letters.
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.
Compared to art, all other professions are but chores.
Behind every novel is a greater story of how it came to be published.