If you even think about asking Harry Potter for an autograph, your day ends right now.

If it weren't for greed, intolerance, hate, passion and murder, you would have no works of art, no great buildings, no medical science, no Mozart, no Van Gough, no Muppets and no Louis Armstrong.

I have the death sentence in seven genres.

I got Oedipus off the incest charge--technicality, of course--he didn't know it was his mother at the time.

True and baseless evil is as rare as the purest good - and we all know how rare that is.

"Edward, Edward," he said with a patronising smile, "there are no unanswered questions of any relevance. Every question that we need to ask has been answered fully. If you can't find the correct answer then you are obviously asking the wrong question."

For an author just starting out, you've got to deliver the goods every year or sooner or people will forget you or you will lose momentum. There is a contract that exists between author and reader.