I kept starting 'Anansi Boys' as a movie and stopping, and eventually wrote the novel and was happy.

We all not only could know everything. We do. We just tell ourselves we don't to make it all bearable.

I think I fell in love with her, a little bit. Isn't that dumb? But it was like I knew her. Like she was my oldest, dearest friend. The kind of person you can tell anything to, no matter how bad, and they'll still love you, because they know you. I wanted to go with her. I wanted her to notice me. And then she stopped walking. Under the moon, she stopped. And looked at us. She looked at me. Maybe she was trying to tell me something; I don't know. She probably didn't even know I was there. But I'll always love her. All my life.

Oh, monsters are scared. That's why they're monsters.

When angels go bad they are worse than anyone else. Remember Lucifer used to be an angel.

Gods, religions and national boundaries are absolutely imaginary. They don't tend to exist. As soon as you pull back half a mile and look down at the Earth there are no national boundaries. There aren't even national boundaries when you get down and walk around. They're just imaginary lines we draw on maps. I just get fascinated by people who assume that things that are imaginary have no relevance to their lives.

When you start off, you have to deal with the problems of failure. You need to be thickskinned, to learn that not every project will survive.