It is the curse of age, that all things are reflections of other things.
He... Richard began. The marquis. Well, you know, to be honest, he seems a little bit dodgy to me.Door stopped. The steps dead-ended in a rough brick wall. Mm, she agreed. He's a little bit dodgy in t...
He wondered how it could have taken him so long to realize he cared for her, and he told her so, and she called him an idiot, and he declared that it was the finest thing that ever a man had been call...
He stopped for a moment, and he thought about people, and about things, and about how hard it is to do anything for the first time.
Doing fine, thank you, I would say, never knowing how to talk about what I do. If I could talk about it, I would not have to do it. I make art, sometimes I make true art, and sometimes it fills the em...
Childhood memories are sometimes covered and obscured beneath the things that come later, like childhood toys forgotten at the bottom of a crammed adult closet, but they are never lost for good.
Back in my day, we had it all set up. You lined up when you died, and you'd answer for your evil deeds and your good deeds, and if your evil deeds outweighed a feather, we'd feed your soul and your he...
Libraries really are the gates to the future. So it is unfortunate that, round the world, we observe local authorities seizing the opportunity to close libraries as an easy way to save money, without...
Writing fiction is not a profession that leaves one well-disposed toward reading fiction. One starts out loving books and stories, and then one becomes jaded and increasingly hard to please. I read le...
But the truth is, it's not the idea, it's never the idea, it's always what you do with it.")
This is how you do it: you sit down at the keyboard and you put one word after another until its done. It's that easy, and that hard.
A nice, easy place for freedom of speech to be eroded is comics, because comics are a natural target whenever an election comes up.
You'll think this is a bit silly, but I'm a bit--well, I have a thing about birds.What, a phobia?Sort of.Well, that's the common term for an irrational fear of birds.What do they call a rational fear...
You must never imagine, that just because something is funny, it is not also dangerous.
You have to believe. Otherwise, it will never happen.
You can no more read the same book again than you can step into the same river.
You ask me if I can forgive myself? I can forgive myself for many things.
Who wears masks?’‘Bank robbers?’‘No.’‘Really ugly people?’‘No.’‘Halloween? People wear masks at Halloween.’‘Yes! They do!’ He flung his arms wide in delight.‘So that’s important?’‘Not even a little bi...
What are these fundamental principles, if they are not atoms?Stories. And they give me hope.
They might be dirty, and cheap, and their food might taste like shit, but at least they didn’t speak in clichés