When I was a kid, I read the science-fiction shelves, and I read the fantasy shelves.

The trouble with thinking was that, once you started, you went on doing it.

No one's policing their own minds more than an author. You spend a lot of time in your own head analysing what you think about things, and a philosophy comes.

A good banana daiquiri is hard to come by. I've only ever found one place in this country that makes a proper one, and that's in Leeds.

And all the stories had, somewhere, the witch. The wicked old witch. And Tiffany had thought: Where's the evidence?

I was just a kid then. But I won't forget. Nor will others. There's lots of people with reason to hate the Church.

And never resist a perfect moment.