Being a practiced liar doesn't mean you have a powerful imagination. Many good liars have no imagination at all; it's that which gives their lies such wide-eyed conviction.

For every once upon a time there must be a story to follow, because if a story doesn't, something else will, and it might not be as harmless as a story.

I don't profess any religion; I don't think it's possible that there is a God.... My books are about killing God.

Just finished 'Secrecy' - truly enthralling both as a love story and as a tale of suspense - but much more than both.

You cannot change what you are, only what you do.

...because where we are is always the most important place.

The book is second only to the wheel as the best piece of technology human beings have ever invented. A book symbolises the whole intellectual history of mankind; it's the greatest weapon ever devised in the war against stupidity.