With the crime novels, its delightful to have protagonists I can revisit in book after book. Its like having a fictitious family.

I would be far more critical than any reviewer could be of my own work. So I simply don't read them.

I shall strip away layer after layer of grime -- the toffee-colored varnish and caked soot left by a lifetime of dissembling -- until I come to the very thing itself and know it for what it is. My soul. My self.

For memory, we use our imagination. We take a few strands of real time and carry them with us, then like an oyster we create a pearl around them.

Enormous morning, ponderous, meticulous; gray light streaking each bare branch, each single twig, along one side, making another tree, of glassy veins.

I never went to university. I'm self-educated. I didn't go because I was too impatient, too arrogant.

I've always been fascinated by physics and cosmology. It gets more and more scary the older you get.