The magic of comics is that there are three people involved in any comic. There's whoever's writing it and whoever's drawing it. And then there's whoever's reading it because they are creating the movement. They are creating the illusion of time passing.

If you only write when inspired, you may be a fairly decent poet, but you'll never be a novelist.

The TV's the altar. I'm what people are sacrificing to.' 'What do they sacrifice?' asked Shadow. 'Their time, mostly,' said Lucy. 'Sometimes each other.

In a novel, you can always go back and make it look like you knew what you were doing all along before the thing goes out and gets published.

When you start off, you have to deal with the problems of failure. You need to be thickskinned, to learn that not every project will survive.

Something told him that something was coming to an end. Not the world, exactly. Just the summer. There would be other summers, but there would never be one like this. Ever again.

The stuff you bring back from dreams is free.