Laugh and the world laughs with you!

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.

I was a clubber in the Nineties. I went dancing every week.

If our shallow, self-critical culture sometimes seems to lack a sense of the numinous or spiritual it's only in the same way a fish lacks a sense of the ocean.

My greatest accomplishment so far is to keep selling enough that I never want for the labor that sustains my Presbyterian soul.

I just wanted all the wars to be over so that we could spend the money on starships and Mars colonies.

Adults...struggle desperately with fiction, demanding constantly that it conform to the rules of everyday life. Adults foolishly demand to know how Superman can possibly fly, or how Batman can possibly run a multibillion-dollar business empire during the day and fight crime at night, when the answer is obvious even to the smallest child: because it's not real.