People in extreme conditions are suddenly naked, realer than normal, perhaps even more alive.

I'm incapable of writing without social commentary. I like to think that it's integrated and not really heavy handedly didactic.

Labels only confuse people. The smarter people recognize artists who transcend categories. But I always try to entertain. It's in my nature; writers are born to entertain. If that means working ostensibly within a genre, fine.

I'm disturbed when people let superstition, magical thinking, extreme conspiracy theories and so on blur their minds.

I do sometimes watch 'Dr. Who' and while the stories barely make sense, if at all, the doctor is such great company I don't care.

A man must make of his life a ladder that he never ceases to climb -- if you're not rising, you are slipping down the rungs, my friend.

Innocence could be considered a discrete state of mind.