If you are always frightened for yourself you can't act, and then life loses its purpose. You just have to tell yourself that, when you get right down to it, you don't matter all that much.

My breakthrough as a reader was when I discovered the European adventure story writers - Alexander Dumas, Robert Louis Stevenson, Sir Walter Scott, to name a few.

Cats can do whatever they want, whenever they want, without regard to what anyone says or does. Rather like Princesses.

I want you, as a reader, to experience what I experience, to let that other world, that imaginary world that I have created, tell you things about the real world.

The muse whispers to you when she chooses, and you can't tell her to come back later, because you quickly learn in this business that she might not come back at all.

Might have, could have, may have, should have—the haves and have nots reduced to pointless possibilities.

After all, you put a lot into creating a universe and everything that goes with it, and it seems a shame to use it only once.