We're taking part in a divine comedy and we should realise that the play is always a comedy, in that we're all ultimately ridiculous.
I don't mind my work being a record of the time it was written in.
Since 2001, people have been scared. There's been some really scary stuff that's been happening - 911, Iraq, Afghanistan, Katrina, anthrax letters, D. C. sniper, global warming, global financial meltdown, bird flu, swine flu, SARS. I think people really feel like the system's breaking down.
I think that most people would rather face the light of a real enemy than the darkness of their imagined fears.
Generation Z, they cleaned up their own mess.
I wrote 'The Zombie Survival Guide' because I wanted to read it, and nobody else was writing it. All I've been doing with everything I've written is answering questions that I had.
Before I'm a zombie nerd, before I'm a science-fiction nerd, I am a history nerd.
. . because when we look up into the sky at night there will be no darkness, just the blazing light of billions and billions of stars, all falling.
Socialism is nothing more nor less than the social, political and ideological system which breaks the fetters upon economic growth created under capitalism and opens the way to a new period of economic and social expansion on a much larger scale.
It would actually be quite nice if the American ambassador in Britain could pay the [congestion] charge that everybody else is paying and not actually try and skive out of it like some chiselling little crook.
I don't want to tell people where to go get all my cool stuff.