He was born a politician. No, Ursula thought, he was born a baby, like everyone else. And this is what he has chosen to become.

I've always loved mysteries, the something there that you didn't know, and with 'Case Histories' I just decide to make that more up-front.

It wasn't that [he] believed in religion, or a God, or an afterlife. He just knew it was impossible to feel this much love and for it to end.

I am mad, I think. I am mad therefore I think. I am mad therefore I think I am.

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

Why do cats sleep so much? Perhaps they've been trusted with some major cosmic task, an essential law of physics - such as: if there are less than five million cats sleeping at any one time the world will stop spinning.

Men had no purpose on earth whereas women were gods walking unrecognized among them.