There is another consequence of any belief in a single god, and that is that it is a very good excuse for people to behave very badly.

We are all subject to the fates. But we must act as if we are not, or die of despair.

No,' he said, 'memory's a poor thing to have. It's your own real hair and mouth and arms and eyes and hands I want. I didn't know I could ever love anything so much.

Well, I have an idea, usually a visual image of some sort. A setting. A particular, I don't know, urban scene, a particular time of day. Something that grips my imagination for some reason.

A professional writer is someone who writes just as well when they're not inspired as when they are.

I'm with the Grimms on this: stories for young and old. You can't characterize them any better than that.

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