And I ask him why he cuts his arms with a razor. "Just fo feel. Just to feel something.

Consciousness, rather than being something that we have, is something we participate in.

Performing magic has a lot to do with the arrangement of apparent coincidences and providing pathways along which desires can travel, or, to put it in more basic terms, there's little point in sigilizing for a lottery win if you don't also buy a lottery ticket.

I have to confess I'm not a huge comics fan in the wider sense of comics as an art form.

And when it's all done, when there's no one left you'll come back for me. And tell me who I am and why I have to do what I do. And explain 'Eternity.' You'll come back

The only time I ever met a character that I wrote was when I met Ian McKellan, when he was playing Magneto in the 'X-Men' movies.

It's so horrible to realize you're just the same as everyone else, isn't it?