Marriage is an honorable estate and should not be used simply as an excuse for legal intercourse.

If you enjoyed laughing in the face of death, you might like to have a crack at High Saffron. One hundred merits, and all you have to do is take a look.' 'I understand there's a one hundred percent fatality rate?' 'True. But up until the moment of death there was a one hundred percent survival rate. Really, I shouldn't let anything as meaningless as statistics put you off.

I work very much on the principle that anything created by mankind has mischief and error hardwired into its inception.

the Real-World was a sprawling mess of a book in need of a good editor.

There's something rotten in the state of Denmark, and Hamlet says...it's payback time!

I've never been averse to a little risk - after all, writing without risk is not really writing at all. Sometimes one has to just let fly with a high concept piece and see where the pieces fall. As it generally turns out, the central story is familiar, but just with different rules of engagement.

Yes, and imagine a world where there were no hypothetical situations.