If you think it's hard getting in, you should try getting out.

The school even had a Latin motto: Pergo et Perago, which sounded like the story of two Italian cannibals but which actually meant “I try and I achieve.

I'm not very good at creating worlds. I prefer to write about the world as it is.

Once you get into the world of dystopia, it's hard to avoid plagiarism, because other people have had such powerful visions.

I vividly remember being 14. That was the age when I started to get happy: I started being a writer and stopped being a loser.

I didn't set fire to the building." "No, but you did pull it into the river." "That put the fire out!

Nice day for a funeral.