Because I write a book a year, I always want to do one other project every year that's stimulating in a different way. It means you can be working but not using up your prose juice, you know?

I have two children. They are more fun than anything in the world, and it's more immediate fun than the hard slog of writing.

I think graphic novels are closer to prose than film, which is a really different form.

I hate it when I'm reading a comic, and the dialogue looks like stickers stuck on top to explain what's going on. For me the best is when your eye goes in a certain point and moves through the composition and then springs out on the dialogue, or gets confused in the image and then goes to the dialogue for an explanation.

I'm terrified to get married. I'm not getting married till my gay friends can.

I grew up in London under Thatcher and that really was disgusting. A feeding frenzy.

There's always these giant baffling books, like 'The Da Vinci Code.' People say it's not as well written as 'Midnight's Children.' Why aren't people reading 'Midnight's Children?' Nobody knows why these phenomenons happen but they're great.