When you commit a serious doping offence you are not eligible for lottery funding.

These days - with the decline of the traditional churches - I'm concerned about where we obtain some form of moral direction.

The older I get, the more I seek to use a plain prose style, concentrating more on story.

We've invested millions of dollars in tourism. Now they're trying to industrialize and pollute the ocean. It doesn't make any sense to me at all.

I got to see first hand what he has done to make this a reality. That has been real rewarding to watch him achieve his dream.

I don't see myself as experimenting in any conscious way, it's perhaps that certain books require different densities of language.

If I had the luxury of working as a full time writer, I think you would see novels appearing on a much more regular, and frequent, basis.