I think the short story is a very underrated art form. We know that novels deserve respect.

It has been said that civilization is twenty-four hours and two meals away from barbarism.

To absent friends, lost loves, old gods, and the season of mists; and may each and every one of us always give the devil his due.

I'm just going to stay here, in the darkness under the arch. I can hear you all out there, trip-trapping, trip-trapping over my bridge. Oh yes, I can hear you. But I'm not coming out.

I don't know much more than I did when I was alive. Most of the stuff I know now that I didn't know then I can't put into words.

I tend to think of fear and humour as very, very close together. And to be honest I think pornography completes the triangle, because they are things that to work need to evoke a certain reaction.

I like 'pencil-necked weasel'. It has 'pencil' in it. Pencils are good things. You can draw or write things with pencils. I think it's what you call someone when you're worried that using a long word like 'intellectual' may have too many syllables. It's not something that people who have serious, important things to say call other people.