War Is Like Any Other Bad Relationship.

The Way I See It, Anyone Who's Proud Of Their Country Is Either A Thug Or Just Hasn't Read Enough History Yet.

When A Man You Know To Be Of Sound Mind Tells You His Recently Deceased Mother Has Just Tried To Climb In His Bedroom Window And Eat Him, You Only Have Two Basic Options. You Can Smell His Breath, Take His Pulse And Check His Pupils To See If He's Ingested Anything Nasty, Or You Can Believe Him.

Culture Is Like A Smog. To Live Within It, You Must Breathe Some Of It In And, Inevitably, Be Contaminated.

I Think Certainly If I'd Started Getting Published When I Was In My Early Twenties, I Was Quite Sheltered Then And Didn't Know Anything Much About The World. I Hadn't Had Any Direct Experience Of How The World Works.

Pretty Much Anything You Care To Imagine Can Happen In A Fantasy, Which In Turn Means You Can Really Crank Up The Intensity Of The Tale You're Telling.