The strong survive, but the courageous triumph.

The research. It is always the best part of writing. And, of course, it is the great excuse to travel.

Being immortal must have a lot of attractions. You can travel all over the world, see everything, do everything. But what happens if you are immortal and your friends and family are not? You are then destined to watch them age and die.

The best moment is when you walk into a bookstore and see a pile of your books - that is the oddest experience in the world!

Knowledge itself is never dangerous, it is how that knowledge is used that is dangerous

When it is going well, it is the best job [writing] in the world. For those few hours, you are god, in control of everything. However, for me, the great joy of writing is that it has allowed me to travel the world in search of stories.

I'm always writing - its what I like to do. But when I'm not writing, I'm reading.