I was a 'Planet of the Apes'-obsessed kid.

You learn to write by reading, and my experiences and tastes as a reader are pretty wide.

If asked to name the worst moment of his life, Michael Fisher wouldn't have hesitated to give his answer: it was when the lights went out.

As long as we remember a person, they're not really gone. Their thoughts, their feelings, their memories, they become a part of us.

I tend to start at 9 o'clock in the morning and write until 3. Those are my best hours. They fit the other rhythms of the world. So I write for six hours, pretty much without any breaks.

Even on the darkest night, my friend, life will have its way.

So perhaps the greatest worry of all was that one day you would realize that all the worries of your life amounted to one thing: the desire to just stop worrying.