I walk across the dreaming sands under the pale moon: through the dreams of countries and cities, past dreams of places long gone and times beyond recall.

I tend to think of fear and humour as very, very close together. And to be honest I think pornography completes the triangle, because they are things that to work need to evoke a certain reaction.

I learned to write by writing. I tended to do anything as long as it felt like an adventure, and to stop when it felt like work, which meant that life did not feel like work.

The real problem with stories - if you keep them going long enough, they always end in death.

Fiction takes us to places that we would never otherwise go, and puts us behind eyes that are not our own.

I think you're doing better than you were the last time we saw you. You're growing a new heart, for a start.

I would like to see anyone, prophet, king or God, convince a thousand cats to do the same thing at the same time.