I need paper and pen to release my imagination. I can't create on a machine.

Anything is possible when tackling a blank sheet with ink. It's less distracting because I'm away from my computer and all of its convenient diversions.

I came up with an idea to turn the cliché inside out: instead of humans threatened by zombies, what if a sympathetic zombie was threatened by humans?

I like a strange, wide range of stuff. I like classical music and industrial noise bands. John Waters films and Peanuts cartoons. Barry Manilow and GG Allin. I should have my head examined.

I think many of us live in a rut. Stuck in a groove we can't get out of, whether it's our job, family drama or the little frustrations of everyday life.

The genres change but all of my stories feature ordinary people thrown into frightening, life-altering situations.

The possession targets a vulnerability in each of its victims and amplifies it. Essentially, it removes the self-control and notions of good that keep us from acting out on our darkest impulses.

I'm going to slow down a little bit, but I won't stop creating. I can't!

I never ask a man what his business is, for it never interests me. What I ask him about are his thoughts and dreams.

Rocinante was of more value for a true traveller than a jet plane. Jet planes were for business men.

Even your sweetest character has claws, no matter how well they may be retracted and hidden (hidden even from herself).

There is always scope for football to be more charitable but a lot happens already. Personally I have always been passionate about charity.

We confuse ourselves with space-time events, when in fact we are the ones who generate these space-time events.

That's the mistake women make - you shouldn't see your makeup. We don't want to look like we've made an effort.

She gave 'The Dream Carrier' to Max as if words alone could nourish him.

I don't like to get bored and don't like to repeat myself.

I had my palm read. I wrote something on it first to see if she would read that too.

I got hundreds of emails insulting me, accusing me of being some caveman. I am by no means a Luddite. I have two iPods. I have a cell phone. I have cable TV, HDTV!