It's tough at the top. It's tough at the bottom. But in between you could use them for horse-shoes.

I really wish that peoplewould just say, 'Yes, it's a comic. Yes, this is fantasy. Yes, this is Science Fiction,' and defend the genre instead of saying, 'Horror is a bit passe so this is Dark Fantasy,' and that' s playing someone else's game. So that's why I say I'm a fantasy writer and to hell with 'It doesn't read like what I think of as a fantasy'. In that case what you think of as a fantasy is not a fantasy. Or there is more to it than you think.

Correct observation followed by meticulous deduction and the precise visualization of goals is vital to the success of any enterprise.

Education had been easy. Learning things had been harder.

What I've always said was, hang in there, let me write what I want to write, and you'll probably like it.

Speak softly and employ a huge man with a crowbar.

There was no himself in himself.