The view changes from where you are standing. Words can wound, and wounds can heal. All of these things are true.

I love CGI if it's invisible. I don't like it when it's there and obvious.

It used to be thought that the events that changed the world were things like big bombs, maniac politicians, huge earthquakes, or vast population movements, but it has now been realized that this is a very old-fashioned view held by people totally out of touch with modern thought. The things that really change the world, according to Chaos theory, are the tiny things. A butterfly flaps its wings in the Amazonian jungle, and subsequently a storm ravages half of Europe.

All good technology should be used to piss off people's parents.

Imagine a mosaic picture of a house in the country: lots of red and blue and yellow and black and brown and white and a dozen different shades of green tiles which make a beautiful picture if you stand back far enough. All the little red squares are true - true things, true places, true feelings. But the red squares aren't the picture. All the rest of it is lies and stories, often within the same sentence.

You play your cards so close to your chest," said Shadow, "that I'm not even sure they're really cards at all.

Going off the grid is always good for me. It's the way that I've started books and finished books and gotten myself out of deadline dooms and things.