If people believed in eternal damnation they might not be seizing the day quite so much.

Ethics are not necessarily to do with being law-abiding. I am very interested in the moral path, doing the right thing.

Love was the hardest thing. Don't let anyone ever tell you different.

You can step in the same river but the water will always be new.

Sometimes it was harder to change the past than it was the future.

Alternate history fascinates me, as it fascinates all novelists, because 'What if?' is the big thing.

I can't imagine what it would be like to write in a relaxed state. I'm going to be writing some stories for my own interest. I want to experiment with different things and see if I can approach writing with much less control and in a better psychological state. It will be like breaking out of a straitjacket.