'Alpha' is a very fast-moving book. It doesn't lend itself to laborious introspection and the navel-gazing that some stories can fall prey to.

A character wandering around asking, 'Who am I?' isn't, in and of itself, a story I'm interested in telling.

Le storie sono fra tutte le cose le più selvagge. Le storie inseguono, predano e mordono.

Some of the best moments I've ever written have come about because someone, somewhere, blew my preconceptions out of the water and dropped a detail in passing that took the work in an entirely new, entirely unexpected, direction.

The features of the property lend itself to passive use.

Public decision-making does not lend itself to certitude.