I love Japan, and Tokyo is my favorite city.

The National Surveillance State doesn't want anyone to be able to communicate without the authorities being able to monitor that communication.

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

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.

Publishing for me is a business, not an ideology.

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

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