I was thinking about what I wanted to write next, after my first novel, and had decided that I wanted to write a story with a lot of strong female characters in it.

Fear of the unknown is a terrible fear.

And so The Snow Queen also became a story about the need to seek equilibrium, in our own lives, with the natural world, even within the universe at large.

What I do not want to write is didactic political tracts.

For every path you choose, there is another you must abandon, usually forever.

Throughout the ages, stories with certain basic themes have recurred over and over, in widely disparate cultures; emerging like the goddess Venus from the sea of our unconscious.

What does immortality mean to me? That we all want more time; and we want it to be quality time.