I took delight in hurling books across the room if I knew I would not be reading the second chapter. Then I’d go and pick them up again, because they are books, after all, and we are not savages.

You’re alive. That means you have infinite potential. You can do anything, make anything, dream anything.

Nearly' only counts in horseshoes and hand-grenades.

I kept starting 'Anansi Boys' as a movie and stopping, and eventually wrote the novel and was happy.

I love religion. I could make up religions all day. I sort of think that in an ideal world I'd like to be a religion designer. I'd like people come up to me and say, I need a religion. I'd go talk to them for a while, and I'd design a religion for them. That would be a great job. There's a need for people like that. Fortunately, seeing that one can't actually do it, I get paid for sort of making them up anyway.

I've learned over the years that everything is more or less the same amount of work, so you may as well set your sights high and try and do something really cool.

Notoriety wasn't as good as fame, but was heaps better than obscurity.