Friday's a free day. A woman's day.

In film, a lot of the time you're not as engaged, it is all being given to you, and you're accepting it as it comes in, but in comics, as a reader, you are going to have to work, your imagination needs to do an awful lot.

Life - and I don't suppose I'm the first to make this comparison - is a disease: sexually transmitted, and invariably fatal.

The house smelled musty and damp, and a little sweet, as if it were haunted by the ghosts of long-dead cookies.

If you have something specific and visible to fear, rather than something that could be anything, it is easier.

The stuff you bring back from dreams is free.

You need more than a beginning if you're going to start a book. If all you have is a beginning, then once you've written that beginning, you have nowhere to go.