A duck walks into a bar and the bartender asks, what'll it be? The duck doesn't answer because it's a duck.

Life was what happened when all the what-ifs didn't.

People are always afraid of the unknown - and banding together against the Thing That Is Different From Us is a time-honoured tradition for rallying the masses.

I think there are readers out there and I don't think the book is dead. And more importantly I don't think readers have to choose between literary and commercial fiction.

History could hover, like a faint perfume or a memory stamped on the back of one's eyelids.

When I was little I bragged about my firefighting father: my father would go to heaven, because if he went to hell he would put out all the fires.

anyone can understand anything. You just have to know how to present your information.