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.

It is sometimes a mistake to climb; it is always a mistake never even to make the attempt.

I once read that you die because you see the Angel of Death, and you fall in love. And you fall in love so hard your soul is sucked out through your eyes, and that's the moment of death. It's a lovely, strange old Jewish legend.

Going to Comic-Con for me is always hard and weird, so it just makes me feel guilty. There's always a hundre thousand people out there who have copies of things that I've written and they really want signed and they're not going to get them signed.

A novel seemed the easiest way to get what I had had in my head into the inside of other people's heads. Books are good that way.

The search for the word gets no easier but nobody else is going to write your novel for you.

There aren't any good guys, and there aren't any bad guys. There's just us. People. Doing our best to get by.