As an author, you spend a lot of time by yourself in a room making clicky noises. It gets pretty insulated. You realize pretty early on in your career that even if this goes well, you could spend all your life in a room alone. Unless you pick projects that are going to get you out doing things, you're not going to actually live your life.

I love British cursing - the cadence of it, the joy in the sound of the words, and the vulgarity of it.

Everything in Venice is just a little bit creepy, as much as it's beautiful.

Christopher Moore Quotes