"Ori supposed there were as many unspeakable stories as there were men come back from war."

"“I don’t want to be a simile anymore,” I said. “I want to be a metaphor.”"

"I am often asked is [my work] science fiction or fantasy and my answer is usually ‘Yes’."

"As far as I'm concerned, some of the best literature of the last hundred years has come out of the genre tradition an…"

"The reason that I like SF and fantasy and horror is that to me it's the pulp wing of surrealism."

"The thing about good pulp is that you trust the reader and you know that the mind is a machine to process metaphors s…"

"That’s the trouble with trying to counter clichés—the counterclichés cliché quicker than shit off a shovel, and with …"

"New Weird—along with the other mo(ve)ments of which it’s some kind of cousin, the Ratbastards, the Interstitial Arts,…"

"But it's a prize that... if you're into science-fiction and fantasy you grow up reading books with "Hugo [Award-winne…"

"Their minds were sudden merchants: metaphor, like money, equalised the incommensurable."