Whenever I've been stuck on a project, it's always brought me solace to the return to books that moved me in the past. It's a nice way to get outside my own head; and it brings me back to one of the most important reasons I write at all: to bring some pleasure to readers, to make them think or feel.
I had written lyrics to a song called The Silent Extreme, which Alex later renamed Humans Being.
I have sons, and they have never said the word hell in front of me or my wife. That's the truth.

