He was no longer scared of what tomorrow might bring because yesterday has brought it.

On the whole, stories don't write themselves.

You've a good heart. Sometimes that's enough to see you safe wherever you go. But mostly, it's not.

I loved the sound of the words, even if I was not entirely sure what all of them meant.

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.

Bod shrugged. "So?" he said. "It's only death. I mean, all of my best friends are dead.

To journalists my move from comics to films to best-selling novels was resembling those little evolutionary maps too much, where you see the fish, and then it can walk, and then it's an ape and then it gets up on its hind legs and finally it is a man. I didn't like that. I didn't like the fact that there was something rather amphibious about me - at least in their heads - back when I was writing comics. So I like continuing to write comics, if only because it points out that I haven't just started to walk upright or left the water.