I always wanted to be a writer, but Alan Moore's work and help inspired me to write comics. In some ways the biggest influence on me writing was Punk. There was the idea that you could do something by simply doing it.

I kept starting 'Anansi Boys' as a movie and stopping, and eventually wrote the novel and was happy.

The problems with success, frankly, are infinitely preferable to the problems of failure.

You people always hold onto old identities, old faces and masks, long after they've served their purpose. But you've got to learn to throw things away eventually.

We are always living in the final days. What have you got? A hundred years or much, much less until the end of your world.

It doth not hurt", whispered a faint voice, "She will take you life and all you are and all you care'st for, and she will leave you with nothing but mist and fog. She'll take your joy. And one day you'll wake and your heart and soul will have gone. A husk you'll be, a wisp you'll be, and a thing no more than a dream on waking, or a memory of something forgotten.

Leave no stone unturned. Deeply explore the beauty of your life.