I wandered the earth a mercenary, daring the gods to kill me but surviving because part of me was already dead.

The job of the screenplay is to identify and extract the essence of the story from the novel and reconfigure it for the screen, maintaining its essence in a different vehicle.

The two most important things to do for self-defense are not to take a martial arts class or get a gun, but to think like the opposition and know where you're most at risk.

The post office actually achieves its mission. I wish we could say the same of the CIA.

From the outside, the CIA seems pretty exotic, but from the inside, it's a big bureaucratic place. Think 'post office with spies.'

If the reader cares, I dont think it matters so much whether your hero is in fact an anti-hero.

The movie is someone else's art. But it's great marketing for books.