When the persecution of an individual who has exposed an evil is pursued so ruthlessly and yet the evil itself is studiedly ignored, all of us know that there is something very wrong with the way that our society is conducting itself. And if we do not protest in the strongest terms about what is being done in our name, then we become complicit.

I try to do things in comics that cannot be repeated by television, by movies, by interactive entertainment.

Authority, when first detecting chaos at its heels, will entertain the vilest schemes to save its orderly facade.

Please, don't go. It's lonely. There's a hole in my head as big as the world and it's so very lonely.

Growing up in the Boroughs, I thought I must be the cleverest boy in the world, an illusion that I was able to maintain until I got to the grammar school.

It's early days. A few skeletons are bound to keep jumping out of the closet.

People have asked me why I made the first chapter of my first novel so long, and in an invented English. The only answer I can come up with that satisfies me is, 'To keep out the scum.'