Fiction gives us empathy: it puts us inside the minds of other people, gives us the gifts of seeing the world through their eyes. Fiction is a lie that tells us true things, over and over.

I suppose the point you grow up is the point you let the dreams go.

I started writing when I was about 20, 21 maybe.

I think...that I would rather recollect a life mis-spent on fragile things than spent avoiding moral debt.

If the same object from two different times touches itself, one of two things will happen. Either the Universe will cease to exist. Or three remarkable dwarfs will dance through the streets with flowerpots on their heads.

I'm never quite sure if I'm me when I'm dressed up.

Libraries are the thin red line between civilization and barbarism.