I was a fervent Catholic, and I belonged to the national organizations, even becoming one of the national leaders, until the age of 21, 22.

It is psychologically very hard to go through life without the justification, and the hope, provided by religion.

A human best, which is very little. Its hard to accept the idea that there cannot be an order in the universe because it would offend the free will of God and His omnipotence. So the freedom of God is our condemnation, or at least the condemnation of our pride.

Whenever a poet or preacher, chief or wizard spouts gibberish, the human race spends centuries deciphering the message.

There are no stories without meaning. And I am one of those men who can find it even when others fail to see it. Afterwards the story becomes the book of the living, like a blaring trumpet that raises from the tomb those who have been dust for centuries.

I write stories about conspiracies and paranoid characters while I am, in fact, a very skeptical person.

Not that the incredulous person doesn't believe in anything. It's just that he doesn't believe in everything.