There's a lot of things you can put up with, as long as you're not related to them.

I'm the Beast. You're the Beauty," he said. "It's all a story, isn't it?

I hope I am not too repetitive. However, coming to terms with death is part of the general human situation.

Canadians are Americans with no Disneyland.

I am really chained to my computer these days so I work in my bedroom, which is a room I have worked in for years and years. It is just as much an office as a bedroom, and during the day, my bed is rather like an extension of my desk.

I've never actually been a fighter myself - fighting tires me out and I'm not an efficient fighter anyway - but I have certainly seen other people have great complicated goes at one another.

My theory is that I decided to be a writer when I was about seven, but of course it is not as simple as that. Like most writers, I had to work at other things to earn a living and wrote mainly in the evenings, often very late at night, for many years.