My dad hates umbrellas, said Deeba, swinging her own. When it rains he always says the same thing. 'I do not believe the presence of moisture in the air is sufficient reason to overturn society's usual sensible taboo against wielding spiked clubs at eye level.

I couldn't tell if I was perspicacious or paranoid.

A trap is only a trap if you don't know about it. If you know about it, it's a challenge.

The best way to write a novel is to do it behind your own back.

Ever since I was two, I've loved octopuses, monsters, abandoned buildings.

Art is something you choose to make... it's a bringing together of... of everything around you into something that makes you more human, more khepri, whatever. More of a person.

Is it more childish and foolish to insist that there is a conspiracy or that there is not?