Writing is truly a creative art - putting word to a blank piece of paper and ending up with a full-fledged story rife with character and plot.

If there's anything I'm not pompous about, it's myself or my work. But I seem to be able to play it.

The basic quality that any great story must have is a story that illustrates the human condition.

Why does the lizard stick his tongue out? The lizard sticks its tongue out because that's the way its listening and looking and tasting its environment. It's its means of appreciating what's in front of it.

The possibilities that are suggested in quantum physics tell us that everything that we're looking at may not be in fact there, so the underlying nature of being is weird.

I think of doing a series as very hard work. But then I've talked to coal miners, and that's really hard work.

But if you want to know the truth, the weirdest thing that has happened has been my discovery that people who attend the conventions are filled with love.