I used to get my best ideas from being bored, and now, if I even think I'm being faintly bored, I have two million Twitter followers I can engage with. It's great, but I also think it's important to be able to let your thoughts flow and percolate.

Call no man happy, said Shadow, until he is dead

People who believe they'll be happy if they go and live somewhere else, learn it doesn't work that way. Wherever you go, you take yourself with you.

It would have been hard for Fat Charlie to say exactly when the accumulation of birds on the wire mesh moved from interesting to terrifying. It was somewhere in the first hundred or so, anyway. And it was in the way they didn't coo, or caw, or trill, or song. They simply landed on the wire, and they watched him.

You can't run away from home without destroying somebody's world.

[I spent] much of my time reminding Matt Groening that I really need to be a head in a jar on Futurama.

Are we human because we gaze at the stars or do we gaze at the stars because we are human?