“fiction is founded on truth... unless things did happen, people couldn't think of them.”

“There are people who think that things that happen in fiction do not really happen. These people are wrong.”

“Television and cinema were all very well, but these stories happened to other people. The stories I found in books happened inside my head. I was, in some way, there.It's the magic of fiction: you take the words and you build them into worlds.”

“Sometimes letting the truth out lets people heal, and sometimes it makes things worse. And you couldn't really know which, until you did it, and sometimes only later.”

“Maybe I was just one of those people who couldn't rest easy unless things went catastrophically wrong.”

“It is a profound and necessary truth that the deep things in science are not found because they are useful; they are found because it was possible to find them.”