“Sometimes you had to make the animals perform.”

“I write about all manner of things: a guy fighting aliens in the New York State Library, Antarctica, Inca civilization in Peru, the Great Pyramid at Giza, and people often ask me, where do I get these ideas from? They come from reading widely, watching a lot of documentaries, and increasingly ,as I was able to, travelling around the world.”

“To anyone who knows a writer, never underestimate the power of your encouragement.”

“There is no such thing as an "aspiring writer". You are a writer. Period.”

“If dragons were real, then in all likelihood they were not graceful, high-chested, noble creatures; rather they would have been dirty, ugly, reptilian and mean.”

“Sometimes you had to make the animals perform.”

“Convincing someone to believe something that was inherently unbelievable often meant getting that person to make a quick and easy comparison to something they already knew.”