I was not scared of anything, when I read my book.

She had such unusual eyes. They made me think of the seaside, and so I called her Ocean, and could not have told you why.

The best way to show people true things is from a direction that they had not imagined the truth coming.

I already killed you once today, what does it take to teach some people?

There are a lot of artists who've said they'd like to work with me. To be honest, I'm not sure there is such a thing as an inappropriate artist. The trick is matching the artist with a story.

Be boring, knowing everything. You have to give all that stuff up if you're going to muck about here.

It is not that I was credulous, simply that I belived in all things dark and dangerous. It was part of my young creed that the night was full of ghosts and witches, hungry and flapping and dressed completely in black.