I started out writing much more science fictiony stuff and writing about science fiction.

I wondered how I looked to her, in that place, and knew that even in a place that was nothing but knowledge that was the one thing I could not know. That if I look inward I would see only infinite mirrors staring into myself for eternity.

If you want to imagine the future, imagine a boy and his dog and his friends. And a summer that never ends.

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

It's not irrelevant, those moments of connection, those places where fiction saves your life. It's the most important thing there is.

Really, he thought, if you couldn't trust a poet to offer sensible advice, who could you trust?

I didn't like people rewriting my dialogue. I didn't like the fact that we'd start a comic with the Joker, and by the time we inked it, he would have turned into the Scarecrow.