"I believe that mankind's destiny lies in the stars."
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"Sometimes I think that ideas float through the atmosphere like huge squishy pumpkins, waiting for heads to drop on."
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"I wanted to write something that would be a comedy in the sense of making people feel happier when they finish it than they did when began it."
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"I think the short story is a very underrated art form. We know that novels deserve respect."
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"We all not only could know everything. We do. We just tell ourselves we don't to make it all bearable."
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"I've been blogging since February of 2001. When I started blogging, it was a dinosaur blog. It was me and a handful of tyrannosaurs. We'd be writing blog entries like, 'The tyrannosaurus is getting grumpy.'"
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"Like some kind of particularly tenacious vampire the short story refuses to die, and seems at this point in time to be a wonderful length for our generation."
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"To be Despair. It is a portrait. Only close your eyes and feel."
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"It is going to take more than just a couple of good-hearted souls to raise this child. It will take a graveyard."
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"There was something about being in the vicinity of Grahame Coats that always made Fat Charlie (a) speak in cliches and (b) begin to daydream about huge black helicopters first opening fire upon, then dropping buckets of flaming napalm onto the offices of the Grahame Coats agency. Fat Charlie would not be in the office in those daydreams. He would be sitting in a chair outside a little cafe on the other side of Aldwych, sipping a frothy coffee and occasionally cheering at an exceptionally well-flung bucket of napalm."
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"So the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund is out there preserving and fighting for, and sometimes winning and sometimes losing, the fight for First Amendment rights in comics and, more generally, for freedom of speech."
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"Make glorious and fantastic mistakes."
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"I think...that I would rather recollect a life mis-spent on fragile things than spent avoiding moral debt."
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"I learned to write by writing."
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"I think of myself as a very lazy author."
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"Life - and I don't suppose I'm the first to make this comparison - is a disease: sexually transmitted, and invariably fatal."
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"Even if your goose habitually lays golden eggs, it will still be cooked."
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"I love the auditioning process. I love working with the technical guys. I absolutely love the editing room. That was completely fascinating to me, working with an editor in crafting the thing into something you had in your head."
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"Love isn't quite desire... Love is probably a little bit in The Sandman's domain. Love is partly a dream, it's partly to do with desire, and sometimes it's partly to do with death, as well. It's also very often something to do with delirium."
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"The old rules are crumbling and nobody knows what the new rules are...so make up your own rules."
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