In real life, the hardest aspect of the battle between good and evil is determining which is which.

Tolkien made the wrong choice when he brought Gandalf back. Screw Gandalf. He had a great death and the characters should have had to go on without him.

Ten years from now, no one is going to care how quickly the books came out. The only thing that will matter, the only thing anyone will remember, is how good they were. That's my main concern, and always will be.

I was always intensely Romantic, even when I was too young to understand what that meant.

Art is not a democracy. People don't get to vote on how it ends.

Of all the bright cruel lies they tell you, the crudest is the one called love.