Doubt Is Faith's Shadow.

What Is Worse? Taking The Life Of A Person Who Wants To Live Or Taking Death From A Person Who Wants To Die.

I Have Questioned Myself About The Brutality In The Last Few Novels. Actually In The Leopard, In Hindsight, I Feel I Went A Little Bit Too Far With Screaming Blood. There Are A Couple Of Scenes That I Regret And Wish I Had The Chance To Rewrite. Phantom Has Less Blood.

With Regard To Power, Women Don't Have The Vanity Men Have. They Don't Need To Make Power Visible, They Only Want The Power To Give Them The Other Things They Want. Security. Food. Enjoyment. Revenge. Peace. They Are Rational, Power-seeking Planners, Who Think Beyond The Battle, Beyond The Victory Celebrations. And Because They Have An Inborn Capacity To See Weakness In Their Victims, They Know Instinctively When And How To Strike. And When To Stop. You Can't Learn That.

I Was A Really Bad Taxi Driver. I Only Collided Twice But It Was One Time Too Much.

I've Read That It's The Smell Some Carnivores Use To Find Their Prey. Imagine The Trembling Victim Trying To Hide, But Knowing That The Smell Of Its Own Fear Will Kill It.