"My very small part in WATCHMEN is that, every now and then, Alan would phone me: ''Neil, you're an educated man. Where does it say...''He would need a quote from the Bible, or an essay about owls. I was his occasional research assistant."
"Life is a disease: sexually transmitted, and invariably fatal."
"And life is a good thing for a writer. It's where we get our raw material, for a start. We quite like to stop and watch it."
"But the truth is, it's not the idea, it's never the idea, it's always what you do with it."(Online journal entry for January 31, 2009)"
"Idris: Are all people like this?The Doctor: Like what?Idris: So much bigger on the inside."
"If you like fantasy and you want to be the next Tolkien, don’t read big Tolkienesque fantasies — Tolkien didn’t read big Tolkienesque fantasies, he read books on Finnish philology. Go and read outside of your comfort zone, go and learn stuff."