If you are protected from dark things then you have no protection of, knowledge of, or understanding of dark things when they show up.

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.

I hope you'll make mistakes. If you're making mistakes, it means you're out there doing something.

You don't have to test everything to destruction just to see if you made it right.

And life is a good thing for a writer. It's where we get our raw material, for a start. We quite like to stop and watch it.

I thought about moving south, about continuing to run, continuing to pretend I was alive. But it was, I knew now, much too late for that. There are doors, after all, between the living and the dead, and they swing in both directions.

I learned to write by writing.