Growth Purely For Its Own Sake Is

Whenever I'm Giving Talks, I Always Ask People To Think Of The Most Obscure Questions Because I Enjoy Those The Most. I Always Get The Same Questions: Why Does Pickwick Say "plock" And Will There Be A Movie? I Like The Really Obscure Questions Because There's So Much In The Books. There Are Tons And Tons Of References And I Like When People Get The Little Ones And Ask Me About Them. It's Good For The Audience [and Also] They Realize There's More There.

I Shouldn't Believe Anything I Say, If I Were You-and That Includes What I Just Told You.

People Who Read My Books Have An Open Mind When It Comes To New, Bizarre, Interesting And Exciting Ideas.

After All, Reading Is Arguably A Far More Creative And Imaginative Process Than Writing; When The Reader Creates Emotion In Their Head, Or The Colors Of The Sky During The Setting Sun, Or The Smell Of A Warm Summer's Breeze On Their Face, They Should Reserve As Much Praise For Themselves As They Do For The Writer - Perhaps More.

…tell Me, Has Anything Odd Happened To You Recently? What Do You Mean, Odd?' Unusual. Deviating From The Customary. Something Outside The Usual Parameters Of Normalcy. An Occurrence Of Unprecedented Weird.