What you tend to find in the personal lives of brilliant men is devastation akin to a nuclear bomb going off.

There was quantum mechanics, string theory, and then there was the most mind-bending frontier of the natural world, women.

Like that lightning that comes out of the blue when there's not even a storm going on, just a crazy crack in the sky. With something like that right in front of you, you can't help but feel there's new possibilities out there.

Sometimes it takes more courage not to let yourself see. Sometimes knowledge is damaging - not enlightenment but enleadenment. If one recognizes the difference and prepares oneself - it is extraordinarily brave. Because when it comes to certain human miseries, the only witnesses should be the pavement and maybe the trees. (Gareth van Meer)

I believe writers need to be chameleons, or like Meryl Streep, who can play all sorts of characters. A good writer should be able to cross gender lines and people of all social classes. So for me, writing from a male point of view would be a great challenge, that I would look forward to taking on.

Betrayal isn't ridiculous. It's the reason empires fall.

...the deepest secrets about ourselves that we, in the ultimate act of humanity, will spare those we truly love.