The Conservative Party is a religion in that they are bound together by belief. Almost any organization has its religious aspects.

We're all puppets, Laurie. I'm just a puppet who can see the strings.

I don’t distinguish between magic and art. When I got into magic, I realised I had been doing it all along, ever since I wrote my first pathetic story or poem when I was twelve or whatever. This has all been my magic, my way of dealing with it.

Madness is the emergency exit. You can just step outside, and close the door on all those dreadful things that happened. Forever.

Through my blue fingers, pink grains are falling, haphazard, random, a disorganized stream of silicone that seems pregnant with the possibility of every conceivable shape… But this is illusion. Things have their shape in time, not space alone. Some marble blocks have statues within them, embedded in their future.

There's always been this feedback between comics and films. But I think that if you take that analogy too far, if you only see comic books in terms of films, then eventually the best we can end up with is films that don't move. It would make us a poor relation to the movie industry.

They say that life's a game, & then they take the board away.