“JK Rowling combines the ideas and imagination of an entire Hollywood movie studio with the precise execution of an extremely efficient dictator.”

“To inhale is to inspire, to exhale is to create.”

“Summer movie idea: take all the sequels that are out right now, and make movies about their backstories.”

“Both Rowling and Meyer, they’re speaking directly to young people. … The real difference is that Jo Rowling is a terrific writer and Stephenie Meyer can’t write worth a darn. She’s not very good.”

“Movies, after all, are only an illusion of motion comprised of thousands of still photographs. The imagination, however, moves with its own tidal flow.”

“Superhero movies and comic books teach a lesson that runs directly counter to the culture-of-violence idea: guns are for bad guys too cowardly to fight like men.”

“Our sense that a library is a public good and our idea of what such a place should look like derived precisely from a model created in Rome several thousand years ago.”