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When I set out to write 'Sanctus,' all I wanted to do was craft a piece of high quality entertainment.

'Sanctus' was done on speculation. I had no agent or publisher. I was being sensible, I suppose, by writing a standalone novel. I figured if that one didn't work, no one would be interested in reading a sequel.

Most religious stories and mythologies have some sort of similar root, some sort of global archetypes.

Sanctification is the real change in man from the sordidness of sin to the purity of God's image.

The notion that Jews are mythic creatures is well circulating in our culture.

It is a sure sign that a culture has reached a dead end when it is no longer intrigued by its myths.

The myths connected with individual sanctuaries and ceremonies were merely part of the apparatus of the worship; they served to excite the fancy and sustain the interest of the worshipper... no one cared what he believed about its origin.

Mythology is like a game of Chinese Whispers. What goes in at one end of the human circle is rarely what emerges at the other end.

Myths which are believed in tend to become true.

I've always loved the idea of mythologies linked to or underlying everyday life, like the kami gods of Shintoism, where every rock, tree and stream has its own little god associated with it.