People can be stunningly unobservant.

The worst thing you can try to do is to steer the story once it gets going. You just kind of follow along and see where it goes. That's the fun.

The brain is a muscle that can move the world.

It was always a pleasure to write. I can never think of a time when I just hacked something out to fulfil a contract or meet a deadline. I might have hacked things out, but it was always stuff I loved.

Reading in bed can be heaven, assuming you can get just the right amount of light on the page and aren't prone to spilling your coffee or cognac on the sheets.

He was a romantic in his own harsh way…yet he was also realist enough to know that some times love actually did conquer all.

God always punishes us for what we can't imagine.