There was only one guy in the whole Bible Jesus ever personally promised a place with him in Paradise. Not Peter, not Paul, not any of those guys. He was a convicted thief, being executed. So don't knock the guys on death row. Maybe they know something you don't.

I think the short story is a very underrated art form. We know that novels deserve respect.

The moment that you feel that just possibly you are walking down the street naked...that's the moment you may be starting to get it right.

Short stories are tiny windows into other worlds and other minds and other dreams

I've been inspired by dreams - I've even stolen scenes or images or characters from them.

Adult helplessness destroys children. Or it forces them to become tiny adults of their own.

I was a scholarship minor public school day boy at Ardingly College and later Whitgift School. Then, straight into work as a journalist - a wonderful thing for a writer.