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

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

A thousand recollected lives were passing through her, a thousand stories - of love and work, of parents and children, of duty and joy and grief. Beds slept in and meals eaten, and the bliss and pain of the body, and a view of summer leaves from a window on a morning it had rained; the nights of loneliness and the nights of love, the soul in it's body keeping always longing to be known.

Choosing writing as a career, just by itself, is a measure of not being a calculating person.

I saw my one purpose in that moment, looking into that little girls eyes. I was the one who was meant to save her, that was my one purpose all this time.

It happened fast. Thirty-two minutes for one world to die, another to be born.

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.