Exposing characters and their shortcomings gives me great comfort. Its always great to write about someone more mixed up than yourself.

Ive worked really physically hard, and I was never afraid of working hard as younger bloke.

Writing novels is where I'm most comfortable. It's a very intimate experience.

Given the choice of living in Los Angeles or living in Sydney, I would choose Sydney.

But the ground shakes, as if something's trying to push up from below, and I think of other people's mothers shaking out their duvets or even God shaking out the fabric of space-time.

Might have just been an innocent bystander, sir, ’ said Carrot'What, in Ankh-Morpork?’Yes, sir.’‘We should have grabbed him, then, just for the rarity value

There's no reason to change what you are, but if you're not being you, then you need to acknowledge that.

It was only recently that Isabelle had realized other girls weren’t just for envying, avoiding, or disliking.

I like going to see live bands. Live bands can be quite heavy, but I think it's very relaxing at the same time because you feel so happy and chilled-out.

I'm a professional food eater.

[On yoga] Once you've completed a wonderful class, you get a sense of the deepest, purest part of yourself. You feel like you are connected to everybody else in the world.

[Boxed] Multiple bouncing balls in a box are a metaphor for community. Notice how the escaping balls explode. This is what happens to people who move from Perl to Ruby.

At one point I thought changing my name might help with privacy, but that was before the Internet.

I find his films about as funny as getting an arrow through the neck and discovering there's a gas bill tied to it.