You don't pass or fail at being a person, dear.

Bod quite liked crows. He thought they were funny and he liked the way they helped to keep the graveyard tidy.

With pornography, if you don't get hard or wet, depending on your gender, it didn't work. With humour, if you don't laugh it didn't work. And with horror, if you don't get scared or haunted, depending on what it's trying to do, it didn't work. I'm fascinated by those three categories.

That doesn't happen," she explained. "Stars fall. They don't go back up again." "You could be the first," he told her.

It sounded like a piece of blackboard being dragged over the nails of a wall of severed fingers.

Going to Comic-Con for me is always hard and weird, so it just makes me feel guilty. There's always a hundre thousand people out there who have copies of things that I've written and they really want signed and they're not going to get them signed.

For me, closing libraries is the equivalent of eating your seed corn to save a little money.