Do I have to talk to insane people?"
"You're a librarian now. I'm afraid it's mandatory.

When you're an author, you're always two people. Jasper the writer is different from Jasper the person at home.

When I was about 10 or 11, I realised that people made movies; until then, I had thought they just happened.

People who read my books have an open mind when it comes to new, bizarre, interesting and exciting ideas.

I have a very varied taste in music. Everything from rap to classical to Latino to Rat Pack to jazz.

The sky was like ebony and the only illumination was the harsh white light of the central streetlamp, which cast shadows so hard it seemed you might cut yourself on them.