There's none so blind as those who will not listen.

Are you scared?’ asked Mr. Ibis. ‘Not really.’ ‘Well, try to cultivate the emotions of true awe and spiritual terror, as we walk. They are the appropriate feelings for the situation at hand.

Classic authors should be older than I am, and wiser, and on-top of all their deadlines.

I think radio plays are my favourite medium, as they make the listener work and create and contribute in a way that TV and film can never do, and they have an immediacy that written prose often lacks.

Potentially evil. Potentially good, too, I suppose. Just this huge powerful potentiality waiting to be shaped.

You people always hold onto old identities, old faces and masks, long after they've served their purpose. But you've got to learn to throw things away eventually.

Life is always going to be stranger than fiction, because fiction has to be convincing, and life doesn't.