It was always the view of my parents...that hot weather encouraged loose morals among young people.

He would work through the night and sleep until lunch. There wasn't really much else to do. Make something, and die.

The world should take note: not everything is getting worse.

I like to think that each book I start is a completely new departure But I’ve learned that whatever you do, readers will have no difficulty assimilating it into what you’ve done before.

When there are no consequences, being wrong is simply a diversion.

You enter a state of controlled passivity, you relax your grip and accept that even if your declared intention is to justify the ways of God to man, you might end up interesting your readers rather more in Satan.

Politics is the enemy of the imagination.