All good technology should be used to piss off people's parents.

If writing a novel is a year's exile to a foreign country, writing a short story is a weekend spent somewhere exotic. They're much more like vacations, more exciting and different, and you're off.

I was kidnapped by aliens, they came down from outer space with ray guns, but I fooled them by wearing a wig and laughing in a foreign accent, and I escaped.

Because,' she said, 'when you're scared but you still do it anyway, that's brave.

I have world class photographic red-eye pretty much all the time. As a general rule, if it's taken with a flash, I look like I am possessed by the blazing forces of darkness, at least in the eye department.

Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.

You're brave. You are the bravest person I know, and you are my friend. I don't care if you are imaginary.