Death is the second oldest of the Endless. It's hard not to love her. She loves you, after all.

After a while it sort of began to rain, which is to say that it was the kind of rain that never comes to a decision about whether it's actually raining or not. Driving in it, you would never have been certain whether or not to turn on your wipers.

People tend to find books when they are ready for them.

And then it went, and time passed properly once more, every second following every other second just like they're meant to.

I kept starting 'Anansi Boys' as a movie and stopping, and eventually wrote the novel and was happy.

The things that really change the world, according to Chaos theory, are the tiny things. A butterfly flaps its wings in the Amazonian jungle, and subsequently a storm ravages half of Europe.

People seem to think that they can't come up with ideas, and they're wrong. They can and they do, but they just think of it as daydreaming, or wasting time. Kids get told not to make things up, and in my case, nobody told me long enough, or it just didn't stick.