It’s an artist’s job to show people the world they live in. We hold up mirrors.

There are some as are what they are. And there are some as aren't what they seem to be. And there are some as only seem to be what they seem to be.

People want to forget the impossible. It makes their world safer.

I was not happy as a child, although from time to time I was content. I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else.

My wife, Amanda, is terribly good at warping reality. She is like a bowling ball on a rubber sheet, and you find yourself living in her universe, doing things that are completely unexpected or unimaginable for you, but you blink and you're up on a stage singing, or wearing a peculiar wig, or writing a book filled with feelings and emotion, or doing something equally as unlikely.

The best thing—in Shadow's opinion, perhaps the only good thing—about being in prison was a feeling of relief. The feeling that he'd plunged as low as he could plunge and he'd hit bottom. He didn't worry that the man was going to get him, because the man had got him. He was no longer scared of what tomorrow might bring, because yesterday had brought it.

I was not scared of anything, when I read my book.