If you would know my path and follow in its way, then know the land about, both track and willage, in its bridge and in its drownings. Know the outcast rat-shacks, relic stones and gill-halls. Mark each path above and know the underpath below, its secret way from vault to treasure hole.’ My.

I’m very distanced from the comics industry. I love the comics medium, but I have no time for the industry.

She finds herself suspicious of religious zeal that has a business plan.

People have asked me why I made the first chapter of my first novel so long, and in an invented English. The only answer I can come up with that satisfies me is, ‘To keep out the scum.’

You must understand that knowledge is not all your heritage. I includes also courage and belief, like hers that we commemorate herein... and romance. Always, always romance.

It wasn’t so much all the sex that robbed me of my moral bearings, but all the narcotics. I must say, there’s something about opium that goes very well with lesbianism.

The child had woken before she could ask whether this meant that pigeons were all human ghosts, forms that dead people had gone into and become, or whether they somehow existed simultaneously in Heaven, where dead people go, and up amongst the rafters of the derelict barn in the neighbour’s yard at the same time.

Delightfully, however, even phrases of world-ending awesome fury, spoken through a split lip, were quite funny.

You have to impress him! Be independent and plucky, but often do things that are moronic and out of character!

I’m not a very shy person. I’m just somebody who’s got a lot of work and who doesn’t like to parade himself in new celebrity contexts.