Growing up in Malaysia and England, there wasn't an obvious route into the comics world, so my creative energy went into theatre and prose and then movies and TV.

Dirk Gently has been a long passion (my career started with Douglas Adams and my stage adaptation of Dirk Gently) .

I've always wanted to write comic books, my earliest memories are of waiting for Dad to come home from work, and, secreted in his lawyer's leather briefcase, would be comics from the store.

There is more sexy-stuff a coming in this book, though.... This ain't your grandmother's Dirk Gently.

Why this candle?Why this cake?The day of my birth is not today.I was born when you said, 'Hey.

Bias rules our minds and causes us to overlook the obvious. From 'Fillossofee: Messages From a Grandfather', by Robert Gately

A cat's rage is beautiful, burning with pure cat flame, all its hair standing up and crackling blue sparks, eyes blazing and sputtering.

The burning embers within me burst into flame / My body becomes a fire-lit torch. / Ho someone! Send for the mid-wife.

I believe the war on poverty is a more American idea than the war on the war on poverty. I believe that most people feel like that. And I believe that it ain't over till it's over.

It has always been my ideal in war to eliminate all feelings of hatred and to treat my enemy as an enemy only in battle and to honour him as a man according to his courage.

I don't have a fear of heights. I do, however, have a fear of falling from heights.

Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.

In life, it's between choosing risk and striving for greatness, or risking nothing and being certain of mediocrity

Biblical wisdom means living a disciplined and prudent life in the fear of the Lord