Authors have odd relationships with their creations They owe their fame and fortune to their characters but feel enslaved by them.

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

He looked from the phone to the unconscious figure of the Salesman. "What did you do to him?" he asked. "He got the wrong number," Alex said.

We live in an age when there is no room for the impossible.

We're meant to be friends but you never tell me anything.

You're never too young to die.

I don't think my father was a bad man, all in all.