When I said that I was king of forwards, you've got to understand that I don't come up with this stuff. I just forward it along. You wouldn't arrest a guy who was just passing drugs from one guy to another.

I'm probably better known in the US as a YA writer, I have a huge body of adult horror and fantasy behind me.

My specialty is mythology.There are artifacts like the hallows scattered through just about every mythology. However, what makes the Celtic hallows so interesting is that they are a self-contained group of objects.

The people that you work with are, when you get down to it, your very best friends.

There have always been people like you, Nicholas Flamel. People who think they know what's best, who decide what people should see and read and listen to, who ultimately try to shape how the rest of the world think and acts. I've spent my entire life fighting the likes of you.

At the heart of every legend there is a grain of truth.

I never avoid something that challenges my guts and my heart. While I might occasionally puke my guts out, I have never puked my heart out.