Fantasy enabled me to break the shackles and create a whole new level of 'the world is in danger' stakes.

We transform the world, but we don't remember it. We adjust our baseline to the new level, and we don't recall what was there.

After my cancer diagnosis, I really took my swimming to a new level.

Life is not shrinking for me; it's morphing into a whole new world of possibilities.

I shall create a new world for myself.

I write about all manner of things: a guy fighting aliens in the New York State Library, Antarctica, Inca civilization in Peru, the Great Pyramid at Giza, and people often ask me, where do I get these ideas from? They come from reading widely, watching a lot of documentaries, and increasingly ,as I was able to, travelling around the world.