I like creating villains.
I was very much a child of the Cold War.
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.
We live, we die. Somewhere along the way, if we're lucky, we may find someone to help lighten the load.
The world was a world of dreaming souls who could not die.
So, whenever I'm writing, I'm writing in the presence of all the other books I've read and I think we all are.