If you want to look like the people next door, you're probably smothering yourself into your dreams.

I'm a great dog fanatic. My own dog died a little while ago and I take it very personally when things die-it's a major offence.

I firmly believe that a story is only as good as the villain.

One of the things I'm trying to do over and over again in my books is create new mythologies, create new ways to understand the complexity of the world. I think what mythology does is impress upon chaotic experience the patterns, hierarchies and shapes which allow us to interpret the chaos and make fresh sense of it.

Those old hypocrites. They talk about killing witches but the Good Book’s full of magic. Turning the Nile to blood and parting the Red Sea. What’s that if it’s not good old-fashioned magic? Want a little water into wine? No trouble! How about raising the dead man Lazarus? Just say the word!

I'm a poet,' the young man said, 'And it's my job to remember the sadness of things.

I've learned two things in my life. One that love is the beginning and end of all meaning. And two that it is the same thing whatever shape our souls have taken on this journey. Love is love. Is love.