I can do what I need to do. I can get where I want to go, no matter how hard it is.

Too much mystery is merely an annoyance. Too much adventure is exhausting. And a little terror goes a long way.

Some days I'm lucky to squeeze out a page of copy that pleases me, but I get as many as six or seven pages on a very good day; the average is probably three pages.

Not an insult sweetie. That was a thirteen word kiss.

The world is a very complex and interesting place and that is what I really want my fiction to say: wake up to how amazing the world is.

I come down on the side of free will but I have sympathy for those who believe in fate because there is something about life which we feel we have no control over.

Shakespeare again. Once you let him into your head, he takes up tenancy and will not leave.