I sat in the dark and thought: There’s no big apocalypse. Just an endless procession of little ones.

I'm never, I hope, stupid enough to believe that Twitter or blogging or any of this stuff is a substitute for actually doing the work or writing a book.

Life and death are different sides of the same coin.

I don't just randomly kill people... I kill people when it's funny.

I am an academic," said Professor Mandalay, "and thus have no finely developed senses that would be comprehensible to anyone who has not ever needed to grade papers without actually reading the blessed things.

It's like one of those dreams that changes you. You keep some of the dream forever, and you know things down deep inside yourself, because it happened to you, but when you go looking for details they kind of just slip out of your head.

Break rules. Leave the world more interesting for your being here.