Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up.

And I would try and walk far enough away that people would not assume I was with him.

I always wanted to be a writer, but Alan Moore's work and help inspired me to write comics. In some ways the biggest influence on me writing was Punk. There was the idea that you could do something by simply doing it.

I would not wish to marry someone who had already been married. It would be,' she opined, 'like having someone else break in one's own pony.

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

The imagination is a muscle. If it is not exercised, it atrophies.

I think that pretty much every form of fiction (I’d include fantasy, obviously) can actually be a real escape from places where you feel bad, and from bad places. It can be a safe place you go, like going on holiday, and it can be somewhere that, while you’ve escaped, actually teaches you things you need to know when you go back, that gives you knowledge and armour and tools to change the bad place you were in. So no, they’re not escapist. They’re escape.