I enjoy the Web site a lot and I like being able to talk to my readers. I've always had a very close relationship with them.

Evil is always possible. Goodness is a difficulty.

as they die, the ones we love, we lose our witnesses, our watchers, those who know and understand the tiny little meaningless patterns, those words drawn in water with a stick. And there is nothing left but the endless flow.

I read The Old Curiosity Shop before I began Blackwood Farm. I was amazed at the utter madness in that book.

You never know the palette of the one you kill until the mind disgorges its finest colours.

You reach deep down and bring up what feels absolutely authentic to you as you move along with the book, but you don't know everything about it. You can't.

I think all of us ordinary mortals tend to mythologize people as good-looking as you.