Happily, fantastic fiction is slowly gaining in status.

I have control of my own style.

I can write a story in working-class Stockholm Swedish, but I'm not going to assume I can perform the same feat with Cockney. I'll focus on adventures in story, themes and structure instead.

Time is built entirely on consensus: humans decide that they have linear time, so they do.

To the goats, all people are equal, except for those who have treats.

Your first thought is often the best one. You know, the one that felt too weird or silly or stupid. Trust your imagination - it knows what it's doing.

All my stories and worlds spring from the basic principle of being a slave to the premise, to follow the consequences wherever they may lead without taking any easy or comfortable ways out.

I'm not comfortable with categorizing my own work, but I don't mind if others talk about it in relation to genre as long as they don't try to hold it up to some genre standard.

Some of my other stories are talked about as fantasy, some as horror, and some aren't talked about as genre at all. And the same story will be labeled differently depending on country.

I don't go out of my way to write Weird Fiction, or in any other genre. Some of my stuff easily slips into the Weird slot.

I don't consider genre while writing.

Just because you are what you are, where you are, that does not mean you should continue to be there.

The word "rights", is something that governments need to provide you and protect you from but, the governments are the basic violators of all human rights.

Why do so many salespeople talk to customers about the product and not the result?

If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed.

Failure is not an option. Failure is necessary...We try. We fail. We learn. We adjust.

I'm thrilled we've got a new single out, as singles were the way I first got into music as a child.

I'm very sensitive. Emotionally, I bruise very easily. I'm a Leo, and this is very characteristic of our sign.

Like other forms of stealing, identity theft leaves the victim poor and feeling terribly violated.

You sort of can't talk about the post production unless you talk about what comes first.