Love asks us that we be a little braver than is comfortable, a little more generous, a little more flexible. It means living on the edge more than we care to.

There are days when I'll wake up and think, oh, I've really been something. You know, it won't be the same without me. And then there are days when I wake up and I say, 'Don't kid yourself. Your contribution was minimal. You changed very little. Everything you hated prospered'.

People move forward into the future out of the way they comprehend the past. When we don't understand something in our past, we are therefore crippled.

Every time a story about me appears in a newspaper, I am injured professionally.

I can`t get excited about politics, but I love it as a game. Because what I love in politics - this is very selfish of me, but who cares - what I do love in politics is this ability it has to make you think in new ways.

The art of the novel is to arrive at that artless point where your characters become more real than yourself.

Along with all else, Sandman is a comic strip for intellectuals, and I say it's about time.