Bod said, 'I want to see life. I want to hold it in my hands. I want to leave a footprint on the sand of a desert island. I want to play football with people. I want,' he said, and then he paused and he thought. 'I want everything.

A novel seemed the easiest way to get what I had had in my head into the inside of other people's heads. Books are good that way.

It seems like every time I agree to work with a video game company they go out of business. I stopped because I was starting to feel guilty.

I don't know if proud is the right word, but I am somebody who does not, on the whole, have the highest regard for my own stuff in that when I look all I get to see are the flaws.

For me, I would rather read a good book, from a contented author. I don't really care what it takes to produce that.

"Some things may change," said Wednesday, abruptly. "People, however... People stay the same."

His name is Marcus: he is four and a half and possesses that deep gravity and seriousness that only small children and mountain gorillas have ever been able to master.