All Fiction Is Largely Autobiographical

Every Island To A Child Is A Treasure Island.

What A Child Doesn't Receive He Can Seldom Later Give.

Murder Is The Unique Crime, The Only One For Which We Can Never Make Reparation To The Victim.

I Don't Think Writers Choose The Genre, The Genre Chooses Us. I Wrote Out Of The Wish To Create Order Out Of Disorder, The Liking Of A Pattern.

Of The Four Billion Life Forms Which Have Existed On This Planet, Three Billion, Nine Hundred And Sixty Million Are Now Extinct. We Don't Know Why. Some By Wanton Extinction, Some Through Natural Catastrophe, Some Destroyed By Meteorites And Asteroids. In The Light Of These Mass Extinctions It Really Does Seem Unreasonable To Suppose That Homo Sapiens Should Be Exempt. Our Species Will Have Been One Of The Shortest-lived Of All, A Mere Blink, You May Say, In The Eye Of Time.