Most mainstream male fiction is littered with heroines, and female characters are basically so great, you want to fall in love with them.

Torture is such a slippery slope; as soon as you allow a society or any legal system to do that, almost instantly you get a situation where people are being tortured for very trivial reasons.

I think the future stopped looking American when you think back to Blade Runner and Neuromancer, when it started to look more Japanese.

There has seldom if ever a shortage of eager young males prepared to kill and die to preserve the security, comfort and prejudices of their elders, and what you call heroism is just an expression of this simple fact; there is never a scarcity of idiots.

There is a quite a lot of effort involved but I find action sequences some of the quickest to write and the most fun.

It was the day my grandmother exploded.

I just think people overvalue argument because they like to hear themselves talk.