When I was a kid, we actually lived in a house that had been divided in two at one point, which meant that one room in our house opened up onto a brick wall. And I was convinced all I had to do was just open it the right way and it wouldn't be a brick wall. So I'd sidle over to the door and I'd pull it open.

We all not only could know everything. We do. We just tell ourselves we don't to make it all bearable.

I liked myths. They weren't adult stories and they weren't children's stories. They were better than that. They just were.

Have been unavoidably detained by the world. Expect us when you see us.

If you read enough Lionel Fanthorpe, your brain starts to turn to jelly and just dribbles out of your ears.

To journalists my move from comics to films to best-selling novels was resembling those little evolutionary maps too much, where you see the fish, and then it can walk, and then it's an ape and then it gets up on its hind legs and finally it is a man. I didn't like that. I didn't like the fact that there was something rather amphibious about me - at least in their heads - back when I was writing comics. So I like continuing to write comics, if only because it points out that I haven't just started to walk upright or left the water.

When you die, they can make you into diamonds now. It’s scientific. That’s how I want to be remembered. I want to shine.