All fiction is about people, unless it's about rabbits pretending to be people. It's all essentially characters in action, which means characters moving through time and changes taking place, and that's what we call 'the plot'.

Amazing how the heart clutches at anything familiar, whimpering Mine!Mine!

Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.

I am not a saint or a cripple, I am not a wound; now I will see whether I am a coward.

I write as if I've lived a lot of things I haven't lived.

When we cracked the genetic DNA code, opened the big Pandora's box, and it really did become possible to produce chimeras, my ears shot up. Having been brought up among the biologists and having followed various debates about ways to improve the human template and other debates about the true nature of our nature, I began seriously to wonder: What if? We hold in our hands a tool that is more powerful - for good or ill - than any we have wielded before.

Potential has a shelf life.