"Normally, in anything I do, I'm fairly miserable. I do it, and I get grumpy because there is a huge, vast gulf, this aching disparity, between the platonic ideal of the project that was living in my head, and the small, sad, wizened, shaking, squeaking thing that I actually produce."
"Tomorrow may be hell, but today was a good writing day, and on the good writing days nothing else matters."
"Life is a disease: sexually transmitted, and invariably fatal."
"Idris: Are all people like this?The Doctor: Like what?Idris: So much bigger on the inside."
"There are people who think that things that happen in fiction do not really happen. These people are wrong."
"I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes...you're Doing Something."