What would be the fun in doing things you know are going to work?

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.

Picking five favorite books is like picking the five body parts you'd most like not to lose.

Rock and roll stars have it much better than writers when they're on a tour.

I don't know if any single book made me want to write. C.S. Lewis was the first writer to make me aware that somebody was writing the book I was reading - these wonderful parenthetical asides to the reader.

Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up.

I would not describe myself as a political writer except in the sense that the personal is political, which is something that I do strongly believe. And in that sense American Gods is a very personal novel and a political novel. I was trying to describe the experience of coming to America as an immigrant, the experience of watching the way that America tends to eat other cultures.