I want to make it so that so many things happen... that you didn't expect would happen in this series, that you realize that you have to read every one of them.

If you look at the British royal family and take away the scandals and the goofy stuff that's going on, people love to have this king to look up to - the royals are like celebrities.

The great secret behind classified projects is that most of them are so utterly boring and uninteresting that James Bond wouldn't even take a second look at them.

If you had an alien race that looked like insects, then they would build robots to look like themselves, not to look like people.

I've had the same, full-time assistant and typist for eight or nine years now. She's read everything I've written, she types everything and does a good job, translates it and makes comments.

There will come a time of fire and night, when enemies rise and empires fall, when the stars themselves begin to die.

We wanted to write the first prequels as a story that anyone could pick up.