I have a tendency to pick up my own challenges. The more difficult something it is, the more I want to try it.

I dream a lot, in colour and in sound and scent. Quite a few of my stories have come from dreams.

Anything based on ancient texts is difficult for a modern reader to get their head around.

A man who casts no shadow isn't really a man at all.

I'm incapable of hiding my feelings when I'm around someone I don't like.

You priests. You're all the same. You think fasting helps you think about God, when anyone who can cook would tell you that fasting just makes you think about food.

This isn't the first time the world has come to an end, and it won't be the last either.