That is the trouble with happiness-all of it is built on top of something that men want.

Horror in your country is something you take a dose of to remind yourself that you are not suffering from it.

That is how we lived, happily and without hope. I was very young then, and I did not miss having a future because I did not know I was entitled to one.

I know that the hopes of this whole human world can fit inside one soul.

I'm a much better writer for being a father.

I like to push characters to extremes so they have to make really tough decisions and there is no life more extreme than that of an athlete.

I'm always determined that as a novelist I'm going to go out there and research my characters very thoroughly before I start writing.