I share my name with an aerobatic bird that can whiz across a whole summer sky in seconds. A swift is so equipped for speed that it can scarcely cope with being stationary.

People die when curiosity goes.

What does education do, what does it have to offer, when deprived of its necessary partner, the future, and face instead with - no future at all?

What we wish upon the future is very often the image of some lost, imagined past.

When I am writing, I'm very much on the ground, on the same ground my characters are treading.

I don't reread my books.

All nature's creatures join to express nature's purpose. Somewhere in their mounting and mating, rutting and butting is the very secret of nature itself.