“My job is to find the politicians and the presidents and the pompous people who are telling other people how to live, powerful, visible creatures and ... go at them.”

“He was in awe of the thirst that people had for someone to tell them that everything was going to be all right. He marveled at the gullibility and vulnerability of his fellow humans. No wonder the churches called them sheep. They were woolly-headed pack animals being herded around for the benefit of whoever knew how to control the dogs.”

“You know who they're blaming for global warming now? This is true. Fat people.”

“If I start giving people what they like I'll turn into one of them and I don't want to be one of them I want to be one of me.”

“I have a deep and profound mistrust of all politicians.”

“Its like a sort of internet Ren Fair. Its like Dungeons & Dragons but for cool people who have got friends.”

“This book could scare them. The sex, the violence, the dream sequences and the iconoclasm - I think a lot of people are uncomfortable with that. I understand that. It was very uncomfortable to write some of it”