Only children tell the whole truth, you know. That's what makes them children.

As a teenager, I read a lot of H.P. Lovecraft, so I wrote like H.P. Lovecraft. And in my 20s, I read a lot of Ross Macdonald and Raymond Chandler, so I wrote like those guys. But, little by little, you develop your own style.

You've got to do something to fill up your day. And I can only play so much guitar and watch so many TV shows. It fulfills me. There are two things about it I like: It makes me happy, and it makes other people happy.

I believe that the combination of pencil and memory creates a kind of practical magic, and magic is dangerous.

His name is Legion. He is the king of nowhere.

Writing is like a little hole in reality that you can go through and you can get out and you can be someplace else for a while.

Anything with the power to make you laugh over thirty years later isn’t a waste of time. I think something like that is very close to immortality.