The best thing—in Shadow's opinion, perhaps the only good thing—about being in prison was a feeling of relief. The feeling that he'd plunged as low as he could plunge and he'd hit bottom. He didn't worry that the man was going to get him, because the man had got him. He was no longer scared of what tomorrow might bring, because yesterday had brought it.

Actually I didn't shoot a man in Reno just to watch him die, but he could tell I was extremely cross.

Libraries are our friends.

I looked at the world of books and just went, Oh my gosh, if I'm writing novels, I'm on the same shelves as Jane Austen and Charles Dickens and Petronius - whereas with comics, they've only been doing them for a hundred years, and there's stuff that nobody's done before. I think I'll go off and do some of the stuff no one's ever done before.

I hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you're wonderful.

Stories are made up by people who make them up. If they work, they get retold. There's the magic of it.

This is a roadside attraction,' said Wednesday. 'One of the finest. Which means it is a place of power.