If a Devil is one who dares, when others hold back, then I am happy to play the Devil in this Mystery, boy.

On the whole, stories don't write themselves.

I started out writing much more science fictiony stuff and writing about science fiction.

People talk about books that write themselves, and it's a lie. Books don't write themselves. It takes thought and research and backache and notes and more time and more work than you'd believe.

To be honest, I think love is complete bullshit. I don't think anyone ever loves anyone. I think the best people ever get is horny; horny and scared, so when they find someone who makes them horny, and they get too scared of the world outside, they stay together and they call it love.

It was a perfectly normal gerbil. It appeared to be living in an exciting construction of cylinders, spheres and treadmills, such as the Spanish Inquisition would have devised if they'd had access to a plastics molding press.

I think that is something that I always like in my work - the sense of inclusion rather than the sense of otherness.