“I think people need hope when times are tough. I think they also need escape and adventure and fantasy. Books are like cheap mini vacations.”

“I think people become consumed with selling a book when they need to be consumed with writing it.”

“I think books are like people, in the sense that they'll turn up in your life when you most need them.”

“Knowledge is what man is all about. People like you have tried to hold back progress since the beginning of time. But they failed, and you failed. Man needs to know.""Maybe," Sanders said. "But is that the only thing man needs? I don't think so. I think he also needs mystery, and poetry, and romance. I think he needs a few unanswered questions, to make him brood and wonder.”

“There are times in life when I guess you just needed to face facts, and I think that moment was one of those times. I needed to know who and what I was, not just to Acadia, but also to Leif, and myself most of all.”

“Reality depresses me. I need to find fantasy worlds and escape in them.”