Im not supposed to be within two hundred feet of a school or a Chuck E. Cheese.

When a monkey nibbles on a weenis, it's funny in any language.

My great-grandfather was a self-taught man, and his library was extraordinary. I read the lot.

If you are going to write, nothing will stop you, and if you are not going to write, nothing will make you.

My attitude is that if anybody of any age wants to read a book, let them, but I do think that no child would want to read Boneland.

I loathe crowds. I especially dont like cities. A city involves biomass. And biomass gets to me.

I love research so much that I do an enormous amount; it helps put off the moment of starting to write the story.