Getting inside the mind of a terrorist wasn't difficult at all. Even as children, human beings fabricate elaborate revenge fantasies. We're not a particular species. Check out popular video games.

Where lies the line between sorcery and science? It is only a matter of terminology, my friend.

Writing allows me the time to travel and see the world, which is what I always wanted to do. I'd really like to have been Sir Richard Francis Burton, but it's the wrong century.

I try to challenge myself as much as possible, as often as possible.

In one book, CACHALOT, just for my own amusement, every character is based directly on someone I have known.

Growing up, I never gave a thought to being a writer. All I ever wanted to be was a traveler and explorer. Science-fiction allowed me to go places that were otherwise inaccessible, which is why I started reading it.

In loquaciousness lay insanity.