Goodnight world. While I sleep, I hope you'll all continue to do whatever it is you do. Unless you murder sleeping authors. Don't do that.

The cartoon me writes the books cartoon people read in the cartoon world, because they need things to read there too.

Have you ever spent days and days and days making up flavors of ice cream that no one's ever eaten before? Like chicken and telepone ice cream? Green mouse ice cream was the worst. I didn't like that at all.

I can believe things that are true and things that aren't true and I can believe things where nobody knows if they're true or not.

The real problem with stories - if you keep them going long enough, they always end in death.

In ten years time I’ll be… (dead) sixty.

The thin girl was gulping down one of Richard's bananas in what was, Richard reflected, the least erotic display of banana-eating he had ever seen.