I like airplanes. I like anywhere that isn't a proper place. I like in betweens.

Idris: Are all people like this? The Doctor: Like what? Idris: So much bigger on the inside.

My guiltiest pleasure is Harry Stephen Keeler. He may have been the greatest bad writer America has ever produced. Or perhaps the worst great writer. I do not know. There are few faults you can accuse him of that he is not guilty of. But I love him.

None of us know where our stories come from. That's why writers make fun of people who ask us where we get our ideas... because we don't know.

I went away in my head, into a book. That was where I went whenever real life was too hard or too inflexible.

I'm sure there's an alternate universe where I got to become a pulpy science fiction writer.

Hasn't there always been a moon?" "Bless you. Not in the slightest. I remember the day the moon came. We looked up in the sky - it was all dirty brown and sooty gray here then, not green and blue.