Mouse was the truest friend I ever had. And if there is such a thing as true evil, he was that too.

When you talk about painters and you talk about painters painting masterpieces, there is no painter who painted only one painting and that was a masterpiece. You have to do a whole bunch of paintings to get to the place of mastering your craft.

I never really thought I'd be successful. I never though I'd get books published, but this was something completely beyond me. The fact that it happened is wonderful, but it is not something that I was aiming for.

The older you get the more you live in the past

I took up writing to escape the drudgery of that every day cubicle kind of war.

Losing my parents really set me adrift in more ways than one. It's not just losing them. It's losing the possibility of family.

Purely the idea of writing a lot of books doesn't make you a great writer, but it might be that the process of doing a lot of writing will make you a much better writer.