Nobody ever recognizes themselves unless they are not the character. There are many people who have claimed to be in my books, but unfortunately they were usually people that I didn't know.

Happy endings must come at the end of something,' the Walrus pointed out. 'If they happen in the middle of a story, or an adventure, or the like, all they do is cheer things up for awhile.

I'm no friend of Tony Blair's and I consider the Middle East policies of the United States and the UK fatal.

If Woody Allen were a Muslim, he'd be dead by now.

I'm definitely post-something.

I want to write novels. I want to write stories. I want to do the stuff that I became a writer to do.

I am clearly vulnerable to these more passionate and volatile unstable relationships. I am trying to not be so vulnerable.