“We carry the dead with us only until we die too, and then it is we who are borne along for a little while, and then our bearers in their turn drop, and so on into the unimaginable generations.”

“I've always been fascinated by physics and cosmology. It gets more and more scary the older you get.”

“With crime fiction, you have to write a half-dozen before they catch on.”

“The past beats inside me like a second heart.”