George Henry Lewes

Personal experience is the basis of all real Literature.

Murder, like talent, seems occasionally to run in families.

The object of Literature is to instruct, to animate, or to amuse.

I'm a big action junkie. I grew up on the '80s action movies - the bad ones and the good ones.

Democracy, loudly upheld as a cure for much of the ailing world, has proved no guarantor of political wisdom, even if it remains the least bad form of government.

The weird thing about grief, for me at least, was when each of my parents died, for a year or two afterwards I was pretty wildly brave - just willing to take life on.