If he didn't care about you, you couldn't upset him.

I've been inspired by dreams - I've even stolen scenes or images or characters from them.

If you have something specific and visible to fear, rather than something that could be anything, it is easier.

"Only write what you know" is very good advice. I do my best to stick to it. I wrote about gods and dreams and America because I knew about them. And I wrote about what it's like to wander into Faerie because I knew about that. I wrote about living underneath London because I knew about that too. And I put people into the stories because I knew them: the ones with pumpkins for heads, and the serial killers with eyes for teeth, and the little chocolate people filled with raspberry cream and the rest of them.

I lost some time once. It's always in the last place you look for it.

Leave no stone unturned. Deeply explore the beauty of your life.

Human beings do not relate to written words in the same way that they will relate to spoken words. They do not relate to music in the same way that they do to pictures. It's all different parts of our head, different parts of our minds processing this.