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

I do not miss childhood, but I miss the way I took pleasure in small things, even as greater things crumbled.

The main rule of writing is that if you do it with enough assurance and confidence, you’re allowed to do whatever you like. (That may be a rule for life as well as for writing. But it’s definitely true for writing.) So write your story as it needs to be written. Write it honestly, and tell it as best you can. I’m not sure that there are any other rules. Not ones that matter.

The lower you start, the more opportunities you have.

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

I don't just randomly kill people... I kill people when it's funny.

The TV's the altar. I'm what people are sacrificing to.' 'What do they sacrifice?' asked Shadow. 'Their time, mostly,' said Lucy. 'Sometimes each other.