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

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.

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.

Happily, fantastic fiction is slowly gaining in status.

I don't consider genre while writing.

I believe we have this idea that bad things ought to be prevented from happening.

I always have my best thoughts on the toilet.

Everything was fine, and she had the rare, new sensation of being exactly where she wanted to be.

Remember that the future is not somewhere we are going, it is something we are creating. Everyday we do things that make some futures more probable and others less likely.

I don't read the newspapers, I don't watch the news. I figure, if something important happens, someone will tell me.

Everything is "acceptable" in the sight of God, for how can God not accept that which is? To reject a thing is to deny that it exists.

I'm not an economist and we all know economists were created to make weather forecasters look good.

It was a phenomenon I noticed many years ago. Young people were just giving up every bit of information about themselves they could.

One of the things that's great is that Batman is a character that lends himself to very personal stories.

Good players skate to the puck. Great players skate to where the puck is going to be.