Quotes

I was always so badly frightened as a child, so I thought: "If you can't lick 'em, join em."

I've been told that science fiction writers are a family. If so, then I'm an illegitimate son.

Comedy and horror are opposite sides of the same coin.

I discovered, much to my surprise - and particularly if I was writing in the first person - that I could become a psychopath quite easily. I could think like one and I could devise a manner of unfortunate occurrences. So I probably gave up a flourishing, lucrative career as a mass murderer.

I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a jar on my shelf.