I can't say that I ever actually decided to become a writer. It kind of snuck up on me.

no one worth knowing can be quite known, no one worth possessing can be quite possessed

Well, I outline fanatically. I am a long thinker and a slow writer, though I am trying to get faster.

the act does not create guilt unless the mind is also guilty.

Genes are not simple triggers. No one is hardwired to commit murder or any other crime. Our actions are always the result of stupendously complex gene-environment interactions, and environment is likely to remain the more important influence by far.

I'm a bit of a tech geek myself.

There is no absolute beginning to any story, after all. There is only the moment you begin watching.