There is a real connection between Philosopy and fiction.

For success, the author must make the reader care about the destiny of the principals, and sustain this anxiety, or suspense, for about 100,000 words.

I enjoy learning technical details.

Hunger is the best seasoning.

The CIA's research program is described in a book called "The Search for the Manchurian Candidate."

The degradation to which you subject others comes back, sooner or later, to haunt you.

It was an odd relationship, but then she was an extraordinary woman: a prioress who doubted much of what the church taught; an acclaimed healer who rejected medicine as practised by physicians; and a nun who made enthusiastic love to her man whenever she could get away with it. If I wanted a normal relationship, Merthin told himself, I should have picked a normal girl.