Stuff your eyes with wonder.

Reality and Fiction are different in that fiction has to make sense.

We need our Arts to teach us how to breathe

You either have an imaginative mind or you don't. All of my writing is God-given. I don't write my stories - they write themselves.

Where would you like to go, what would you really like to do with your life? See Istanbul, Port Said, Nairobi, Budapest. Write a book. Smoke too many cigarettes. Fall off a cliff but get caught in a tree halfway down. Get shot at a few times in a dark alley on a Morrocan midnight. Love a beautiful woman.

Plot is no more than footprints left in the snow after your characters have run by on their way to incredible destinations.

Touch a scientist and you touch a child.