“You're going to have to open your eyes.”

“After college, I went on a real big classics kick. Read everything by Faulkner, Hemingway, Woolf, Proust, Dostoevsky. And that classics train dropped me off at 'Dracula.' Halfway through it, I understood I'd never be going back, never 'leaving' the genre again. Since then, I've been on a fairly strict horror diet.”

“I wrote my first book in fifth grade. It was about a dog that goes to outer space and is an ambassador for Earth.”

“You're going to have to open your eyes.”

“In my imagination, the Editor meditated in a mountain-cave, espoused the rules of grammar, and frowned upon speculative fiction.”

“It's better to face madness with a plan than to sit still and let it take you in pieces.”

“How can she expect her children to dream as big as the stars if they can't lift their heads to gaze upon them?”