Even if all the clocks in the station break down, thought Hugo, time won't stop. Not even if you really want it to. Like now.

Ben wished the world was organized by the Dewey decimal system. That way you'd be able to find whatever you were looking for.

Time can play all sorts of tricks on you. In the blink of an eye, babies appear in carriages, coffins disappear into the ground, wars are won and lost, and children transform, like butterflies, into adults.

Having an eye patch actually makes it easier to look through a camera - I don't have to close one eye like everyone else.

But I'm a fairly mechanical worker - I tend not to think about themes so much as plot. I want to get the feeling right. If it's moving through tunnels, I ask myself, what is it like to move through tunnels?

It's fun to see how other artists adapt my work.

I've always loved children's books - it's not that I didn't like them, I just didn't think I wanted to do that. But then I suddenly realized I did.