No... a novel is a long business. I'm a slow writer, even when I'm doing very well I write slowly.

When your rage is choking you, it is best to say nothing.

Nothing. It just finds you a lot more attractive than it does most Humans. What can you do with a beautiful woman that you can’t do with an ugly one? Nothing. It’s just a matter of preference.

I would never have been a good scientist - my attention span was too short for that.

He was like me - a kindred spirit crazy enough to keep on trying.

What I'm working on now - I'm back to fantasy, although considering that it's me, I'm turning it into a kind of science fantasy. It's a vampire story - but my vampires are biological vampires. They didn't become vampires because someone bit them; they were born that way.

Here I was into astronomy, and here into anthropology, and there I go into geology. It was much more fun to be able to research and write about whatever I wanted to.