Cleanse my heart... Give me the ability to rage correctly

I'd the upbringing a nun would envy. Until I was fifteen I was more familiar with Africa than my own body.

Civilizations have been founded and maintained on theories which refused to obey facts.

I'm too amused by the way people carry on to give in to despair.

People think I write fantasy, but I don't; some things may be exaggerated or distorted in the same way that painters distort and alter things, but they're realistic figures. They're perfectly recognisable.

Reading isn't an occupation we encourage among police officers. We try to keep the paperwork down to a minimum.

It's all any reasonable child can expect if the dad is present at the conception.