Ideas are bulletproof.

I wouldn’t be the person I am today if it wasn’t for the opportunities the library gave me.

Memory's so treacherous. One moment you're lost in a carnival of delights with poignant childhood aromas, the flashing neon on puberty, all that sentimental candyfloss. The next, it leads you somewhere you don't want to go.. Somewhere dark and cold, filled with the damp ambiguous shapes of things you'd hoped were forgotten.

I genuinely like the people I meet at signings or the bits of public talking that I do.

I am not saying people should not be free to join whichever reason they choose but should we be forced to live our lives around a belief system that originated somewhere around the fourth or fifth century BC. I cannot see any more reason to base a belief system around Christianity, Judaism or Islam than I can around Lord of the Rings.

There are two worlds we live in: a material world, bound by the laws of physics, and the world inside our mind, which is just as important.

Love your rage, not your cage.