In the end, living is defined by dying.

Science is a little bit more than a wonderful way of modelling and predicting; its a wonderful technical abstraction. I think science is a really wonderful technical abstraction.

Superstition is the need to view the world in terms of simple cause and effect.

I write with teenagers in mind.

I just love the idea that people disappear into the story for a while. You grab a book, and you want to get back to it, and your life becomes a bit of an interruption. I would love readers to feel like that.

A society that fears knowledge is a society that fears itself.

In the end, living is defined by dying.