As long as a film stays unmade, the book is entirely yours, it belongs to the writer. As soon as you make it into a film, suddenly more people see it than have ever read the book.

I held my crotch, closed my eyes and repeated my secret catechism.

The bomb lives only as it is falling.

After doing extensive research, I can definitely tell you that single malt whiskies are good to drink.

The trouble with writing fiction is that it has to make sense, whereas real life doesn't.

It was a truism that all civilizations were basically neurotic until they made contact with everybody else and found their place within the ever-changing meta-civilisation of other beings, because, until then, during the stage when they honestly believed they might be entirely alone in existence, all solo societies were possessed of both an inflated sense of their own importance and a kind of existential terror at the sheer scale and apparent emptiness of the universe.

I just come up with the stories and write them as well as I can. There's not really a great deal of strokey-beard thinking going on.