She had such unusual eyes. They made me think of the seaside, and so I called her Ocean, and could not have told you why.

I was not so old that I would deny my own senses.

I love making things. I love building things. I love the idea that something's in the world that wasn't there before.

The lovely thing about writing comics for so many years is that comics is a medium that is mistaken for a genre. It's not that there are not genres within comics, but because comics tend to be regarded as a genre in itself, content becomes secondary; as long as I was doing a comic, people would pick it up.

Dahling, when God put teeth in your mouth, he ruined a perfectly good arsehole.

As a journalist, I would talk to writers, directors, creative people, and discover that for an awful lot of them, the moment they became successful, that was all they were allowed to do. So you end up talking to the bestselling science-fiction author who wrote a historical-fiction novel that everybody loved, but no one would publish.

I'm willing to make a fool out of myself in public. I'm also willing to make those mistakes that you're going to make the first time you go out, so hopefully the next time it will be better.