Normally I start with a plot, and write a synopsis, and the ideas come from the construction.

Just imagine walking away from something you've started. Something you really believed would be good. I don't think I could ever do that.

I don't have any writing routine. Sometimes I go to my local coffee shop and I write there for some hours. Apart from that, I am traveling most of the time. I write in airports, trains, hotel rooms... I can write anywhere.

Christian ethics demand that you should not take revenge. The paradox is, naturally, that Christians worship a God who is the greatest avenger of them all. Defy him and you burn in eternal hell, an act of revenge which is completely out of proportion to the crime

Losing your life is not the worst thing that can happen. The worst thing is to lose your reason for living.

Good police officers are ugly.

I was sleeping in a water bed for a couple of years, recommended by my doctor. I was never comfortable in that water bed. In the middle of the night you would hear something happening - water and bubbles. I would always think there was some intelligent life in the water bed.