Call no man happy, said Shadow, until he is dead

Start telling the stories that only you can tell.

Fiction takes us to places that we would never otherwise go, and puts us behind eyes that are not our own.

I believe that life is a game, that life is a cruel joke, and that life is what happens when you're alive and that you might as well lie back and enjoy it.

And sometimes when you fall... you fly...

Television and cinema were all very well, but these stories happened to other people. The stories I found in books happened inside my head. I was, in some way, there. It's the magic of fiction: you take the words and you build them into worlds.

There aren't any good guys, and there aren't any bad guys. There's just us. People. Doing our best to get by.