Information is the mortar that both builds and destroys empires..

Rewrite, rewrite, rewrite, don't be precious about your first draft, it's an architectural blueprint to a whole building, be your own worst critic, c….

To be desired by those who are themselves highly desirable is in itself an aphrodisiac..

No, what Great Aunt Winifred was suffering from was the persecution every happily single woman suffers: the predictable social condemnation of her in….

Death strips all men of dignity..

Two bones fell down my chimney and into the bedroom this morning. Hysterical thing to happen to a thriller writer. Murderous ravens perhaps?.

Humiliation scars deeper than the lash..

This may be the very nature of love, a passion as fickle as the sea, full of certainty when the object of desire is absent, yet dubious when confront….

Danger is an aphrodisiac..

We cannot choose the times we live in. Just as, sometimes, we cannot choose whom we love..

So many of man's actions appear to have no immediate consequence but, concealed, do their work until finally all catches up and forms a complex web o….

I was very fierce and very driven at eighteen. But my basic philosophy I think has stayed the same, I'm still an atheist, I still believe strongly in….

Starting a new novel is a little like starting a new relationship - you have to be prepared to commit for at least three years and put up with the do….

You must appreciate that love is the last reason for which a man marries..

Love wasn't a piece of music you could play over and over again with different interpretations. It actually needed to be improvised as you went along..

Everything flows from God, but we are limited by imposing our human perceptions upon him. Man designs God according to his own image and the image ma….

Trust is won not given..

It seems to me that women are freed from their responsibilities only when they are merry widows or eccentric old spinsters..

As a reader I like both great characterization and fast moving plots. The challenge is to balance the both and not compromise one for the other..

A man who denies his past is a man who truly denies himself a future, for he refuses to know himself, and to deny knowledge of oneself is to stumble ….

Indeed, you become what you eat. In which case I am an onion. Layered, slightly sour and guaranteed to bring tears to the eyes..