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

The great thing about writing compared to life is getting to tie things up.

Why is everything an 'adventure' with you?" Sylvie said irritably to Izzie." "Because life is an adventure, of course." "I would say it was more of an endurance race," Sylvie said. "Or an obstacle course.

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

Hindsight's a wonderful thing. If we all had it there would be no history to write about.

Because I write fiction, I don't write autobiography, and to me they are very different things. The first-person narrative is a very intimate thing, but you are not addressing other people as 'I' - you are inhabiting that 'I.'

Whatever happens to you, embrace it, the good and the bad equally. Death is just one more thing to be embraced.