I'd love to think that people in the future would gather in theatres, at conventions, and in darkened rooms, and read it out to each other.

In many ways, it was much, much harder to get the first book contract. The hardest thing probably overall has been learning not to trust people, publicists and so forth, implicitly.

My ideal reader is me. And yes, my ideal reader comes with me and is forgiving.

The TV's the altar. I'm what people are sacrificing to.' 'What do they sacrifice?' asked Shadow. 'Their time, mostly,' said Lucy. 'Sometimes each other.

You're a big one,[...] a tall drink of water, but I got to tell you, you don't look too bright. I got a son, stupid as a man who bought his stupid at a two-for-one sale, and you remind me of him.

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

It seems like every time I agree to work with a video game company they go out of business. I stopped because I was starting to feel guilty.