A literary critic is someone who can't write, but who loves to show he would have been a wonderful writer if only he could!

If I had killed Crow off I can think of least six novels I would never have written, 400,000 words' worth of very necessary experience.

We've got one life and the older we get the more we come to realize how short it is.

But other vampire stories? Well, no, I really haven't read too many, and I can't say I'm crazy about romantic vampires anyway - to me the vampire is simply an evil monster.

Secularism is categorically not saying that the religious may not speak out publicly or have a say in public life. It is about saying that religion alone should not confer a privileged say in public life, or greater influence on it. It really is as simple as that.

Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence.

I have come to the conclusion that while a candidate's faith matters, what's most important is how he or she applies that faith.

In the early 1800s, religion was often used as a way to keep slavery in place. Slaves were forced to attend the church of their owners, listen to selective dogma that kept them obedient and subservient.