This calls for a very special blend of psychology and extreme violence.

I loved writing 'Two Brothers' more than anything else I have written. It's the first book I've written that I've always known I wanted to write. Having said that, it also kept me awake at nights.

I see dull people as projects ... to be reformed

The earth only has so much bounty to offer and inventing ever larger and more notional prices for that bounty does not change its real value.

I'm lucky because the strongest emotion I have ever felt is being in love, and that definitely informs my writing.

Leaders should never, ever try to look cool - that's for dictators

The appropriation of radical thinking by lazy, self-obsessed hippies is a public relations disaster that could cost the earth.