Everyone we've lost, we'll find. Or they'll find us.

If you don't have people that the reader cares about and stories that are gripping, you've got nothing.

"See," Sasha muttered, eyeing the sun. 'It's mine."

That adage about 'Write what you know' is basically the opposite of the way I function. I write about what I'm curious to find out.

I know I'm famous and irresitible - a combination whose properties closely resemble radioactivity - and I know that you in this room are helpless against me.

We lie. That's what we do. You're selling me a line of bullshit and you want me to sell you a line of bullshit back so you can write a major line of bullshit and be paid for it.

It's turning out to be a bad day, a day when the sun feels like teeth.