Writers may be solitary but they also tend to flock together: they like being solitary together.

I wanted to put a reference to masturbation in one of the scripts for the Sandman. It was immediately cut by the editor. He told me, 'There's no masturbation i…

If you need me, Neil and me will be hanging out with the Dream King. Neil says 'hi', by the way...

Give a man a fish, and he's creating art. But teach him to fish, and soon you'll have a pool full of exploding koi.

I rail against writers who talk about the loneliness of it all - what do they want, a crowd looking over their typewriters? Or those who talk about having to s…

[As a screenwriter] I have a sense of exile from thought, a nostalgia of the quiet room and balanced mind. I am a writer, and there comes a time when that whic…

I really do work in solitude.