Genocide is like a dessert. It is made of the flesh and bones of woman and children, it is sweetened with the blood of the innocent, and it is baked in the ovens of Auschwitz. There were truths to be learnt and there was wisdom to be gained... but there was a price to to be paid as well. You could not brush up against the future and escape unscathed. You could not see into the forbidden and avoid damage to your sight.

On the other hand, I still approach each book with the same basic plan in mind - to put some people under severe stress and see how they hold up.

Fantasy is the only canvas large enough for me to paint on.

What you write chooses you.

My interests are different now than they were thirty years ago.

I think I make better use of language and imagery than when I started out.

The reader wants to see something happen between pages one and four hundred, and nothing happens if the characters don't change.