I've always wanted to write comic books, my earliest memories are of waiting for Dad to come home from work, and, secreted in his lawyer's leather briefcase, would be comics from the store.

Dirk Gently has been a long passion (my career started with Douglas Adams and my stage adaptation of Dirk Gently) .

Growing up in Malaysia and England, there wasn't an obvious route into the comics world, so my creative energy went into theatre and prose and then movies and TV.

There is more sexy-stuff a coming in this book, though.... This ain't your grandmother's Dirk Gently.

There are two different categories of love. The first category is called a fairytale. The second category of love is called just another lesson

I don't care about eternity. I was not their when it began, I will not be there when it ends

If you can't change a situation, you can change your attitude toward it.

If a psychiatric and scientific inquiry were to be made upon our rulers, mankind would be appalled at the disclosures.

You'd better do what you feel good about doing. If we [try] to figure out what it is the audience wants and then try to deliver it to them, we're lost souls on the ghost ship forever.

The abyss is full of reality, the abyss experiences itself, the abyss is alive.

Love is not really blind- the bandage is never so tight but that it can peep.

I guess I just have one of those resting faces that makes me look like I want to beat you up.

A recurring ideal, I find, is that of simplicity. At times there comes the desire to write with great precision and clarity, words so simple and moving that they bring tears to the eyes.

I'm just short for my weight. By rights I should measure eight foot three.