Writing allows me the time to travel and see the world, which is what I always wanted to do. I'd really like to have been Sir Richard Francis Burton, but it's the wrong century.

Where lies the line between sorcery and science? It is only a matter of terminology, my friend.

In one book, CACHALOT, just for my own amusement, every character is based directly on someone I have known.

The overwhelming triumph of the international multimedia conglomerate has resulted in less diversity within the field and has made it much harder for newer writers not only to break in, but to make any kind of a living while doing so.

Don't try to write to the trend of the moment.

I try to challenge myself as much as possible, as often as possible.

I hear entire symphonies, oratorios, in my head, but I can't write a note.