My books and other works are my legacy, and it's a great comfort to know that mine is a legacy of pleasure for other people.

Old age is an ordeal, of flesh and mind. Of winding down, of slowing down, of dying cells. It's accepting the loss of physical attractiveness and replacing it with the power and wisdom that can only come with old age.

My books and other works are my legacy, and it's a great comfort to know that mine is a legacy of pleasure for other people.

I have an editor in my head, that's why I can't read Harry Potter, because Rowling is such a lousy writer.

Truly God was good, to make man so blind.

It's a dead give away of an inexperienced writer if every character speaks with the same voice

I am writing a sequel to The Touch because I want to further explore the Chinese question that I have raised. There will be more about that in a sequel.