I wish that the people who sing about the deeds of heroes would think about the people who have to clear up after them.

Why not? If enough people believe, you can be god of anything.

The most important thing was that time had passed, pouring thousands of soothing seconds across the island. People need time to deal with the now before it runs away and becomes the then.

Wisdom is one of the few things that looks bigger the further away it is.

Pride is all very well, but a sausage is a sausage.

The oldest fan letter I've had is from someone aged eighty-five.

You can't build a plot out of jokes. You need tragic relief. And you need to let people know that when a lot of frightened people are running around with edged weaponry, there are deaths. Stupid deaths, usually. I'm not writing 'The A-Team' - if there's a fight going on, people will get hurt. Not letting this happen would be a betrayal.