I used to pick up lettering jobs when I was first starting in the business like in between if I couldn't get other work.

If you're just sitting around home it's just too easy to sit around and smoke pot all day and never get anything done.

Continuity was the kind of place where anybody who came into the city from out of town to deliver some work could come over and hang out and we'd go down and have a few drinks.

Some people just have a natural gift and some people really have to work at it and I'm more of the second kind. I always had to grind it out, where from him it just flowed.

All of my chupacabra books are like novelizations of movies that haven’t been made yet.

Elle wondered if heart could smile, because she felt that her joy reached her inner being.

I think, if you want to grow a novelist, for that person to have a lot of boring time trying to entertain themselves is very important.

Perfection of planned layout is achieved only by institutions on the point of collapse.

Am I hideous, Jane? Very, sir: you always were, you know.

I also really liked playing Mr. Tumnus in 'Narnia'. I got to play my favorite character in children's literature, which I loved. You don't get the chance to do that in other jobs.

As a five-year-old in Berlin in 1965, I didn't know that funny women existed. It wasn't until I got back to England that I realised women could be funny.

If you and I always agree, then one of us is redundant.

Freedom, where are you? Who holds you back? [...] The mother of wit and pleasure, Oh freedom!