Faith is where they learn about their God

I loved writing 'Two Brothers' more than anything else I have written. It's the first book I've written that I've always known I wanted to write. Having said that, it also kept me awake at nights.

The high point of the act is when he (Uri Durov) puts his head inside the bear's huge jaws. I wouldn't even try that with my agent.

Sweet and glorious it is to die for our country.

We didn't invent the Grateful Dead, the crowd invented the Grateful Dead. We were just in line to see what was going to happen.

I have a wonderful marriage and two great kids.

The whole idea of timing tests is a century old, from a scientist who thought speed and ability were tightly correlated, which they are not.

SF isn't a genre; SF is the matrix in which genres are embedded, and because the SF field is never going in any one direction at any one time, there is hardly a way to cut it off.

My sincerity is my credentials.

There are different flavors of recession. You can get into some pretty dark scenarios pretty quickly.

I'm still digging long-established bands like U2 - they're new to me!