We are described into corners, and then we must describe ourselves out of corners.

Anyone who reads my work will see that there are often difficult relationships between fathers and sons.

I'm a world expert on superhero comics. I think maybe only Michael Chabon knows more than me.

I always thought storytelling was like juggling [...] You keep a lot of different tales in the air, and juggle them up and down, and if you're good you don't drop any.

One minute you've got a lucky star watching over you and the next instant it's done a bunk.

So when I studied history at Cambridge, I did a special subject in that, exactly that. And then actually that - while I was studying it was where I came across the so-called incident of the satanic verses.

I admit it: above all things, I fear absurdity.