Warfare against civilians must never be answered in kind. Terror must never be answered with terror.

People are disturbed enough by serial killers, but the whole notion of female violence, particularly maternal violence - the idea of mothers who kill - really unnerves people.

It is the greatest truth of our age: Information is not knowledge.

I have a grim outlook on the world, and in particular on humanity. Spent years denying it, but I am very misanthropic. And I live alone on a mountain for a reason.

I wanted nothing less than to be a fiction writer when I was a kid. If you had told me I would be an artist or novelist when I grew up, I would have laughed in your face

Scientists' minds may jump around like amorous toads, but they do seem to accept such behavior in one another.

Still, it's an interesting technique-leaving one person behind in order to find her or him somewhere else. And in someone else.