I'm still an English professor at Rice University here in Houston. They've been very generous in letting me on a very long leash to just work on 'The Passage' and its sequels.

It was what you did, Wolgast understood; you started to tell a story about who you were, and soon enough the lies were all you had and you became that person.

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

What strange places our lives can carry us to, what dark passages.

My inventing time is all done under the influence of aerobic exercise. Basically, I do all my thinking while I run.

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.

And I grew up on a steady diet of science fiction, especially apocalyptic and postapocalyptic fiction.