As a rule, I don't worry about genre. I just want to tell a good story, with characters that interest me and my readers.

Resistance to change is proportional to how much the future might be altered by any given act.

I always like to see enlightened parents like that; it gives me hope for the future.

True love always happens in a flash.

I do believe that when we're in the process of dying, that all these emergency circuits in the brain take over. I base what I'm saying not on any empirical evidence. I think it's very possible that when you're dying, these circuits open up, which would explain this whole white-light phenomena - when people clinically die and they see their relatives and stuff and say, "Hello, it's great to see you."

Long days and pleasant nights

Read a lot, write a lot is the great commandment.