The imagination and the place that dreams come from is so huge and so important. I'm trying to write about the real world, in that I'm trying to write about whatever it is the experience that makes us human, the things that we have in common.

A nice, easy place for freedom of speech to be eroded is comics, because comics are a natural target whenever an election comes up.

Never trust a demon. He has a hundred motives for anything he does... ninety-nine of them, at least, are malevolent.

Partly because I get such astonishingly nice fans.

It doesn't matter that I can't remember the details any longer: death happened to her. Death happens to all of us.

The cat dropped the rat between its two front paws. "There are those," it said with a sigh, in tones as smooth as oiled silk, "who have suggested that the tendency of a cat to play with its prey is a merciful one - after all, it permits the occasional funny little running snack to escape, from time to time. How often does your dinner get to escape?

And I would try and walk far enough away that people would not assume I was with him.