For the writer, the process of writing a novel is like getting an advanced copy of a book you'd really like to read.

If fiction and fantasy books are escapism, then let an author write them so as to better equip the reader to face reality by the end.

Our meeting was inevitable. Our love was terminal. But God and Goddess damn it, our daughter was no mistake at all.

We can be tired, weary and emotionally distraught, but after spending time alone with God, we find that He injects into our bodies energy, power and strength.

Eat to live, not live to eat.

I don't think much about whether fans will remember me.

I am calm most of the time.

I recommend you stick to your own species, Shy Babe." p. 155

There are so many similarities between a startup venture and a political campaign - the rhythm, the tempo, the hours, the intensity.

I think of Terrence Malick's movie Days of Heaven - one of Richard Gere's first movies - you can push pause on almost any image in the movie and it looks like a painting.

I'm a bit of a hacker fanatic and know a fair bit about that industry and cyber crime and cyber warfare.

The numinous depth of the mystery that seems to have called us out of the animal mind is completely impenetrable to modern analysis.