I think about death a lot, I really do, because I can't believe I won't exist. It's the ego isn't it? I feel that I should retreat into a better form of Zen Buddhism than this kind of ego-dominated thing. But I don't know, I mean, I want to come back as a tree but I suspect that it's just not going to happen, is it?

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.

In the end, it is my belief, words are the only things that can construct a world that makes sense.

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.

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

Become such as you are, having learned what that is.

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.