As her analyst had told her: the deeper buried the distress, the further into the body it went. The digestive system was about as far as it could go to hide.

Stress is when you wake up screaming and you realize you haven't fallen asleep yet

'I Am Legend' is quite unusual for its time. I just wanted to write a story about female boxers, and I couldn't get that going in my mind. I don't know exactly where the idea of just a man pitting himself against a robot boxer came from.

Come out, Neville.

After a while, though, even the deepest sorrow faltered, even the most penetrating despair lost its scalpel edge.

A surfeiting of terror soon made terror a cliché.