Nobody tells you what you can and can't do.

Washington, D.C., has everything that Rome, Paris and London have in the way of great architecture - great power bases. Washington has obelisks and pyramids and underground tunnels and great art and a whole shadow world that we really don't see.

My interest in secret societies is the product of many experiences, some I can discuss, others I cannot.

Powerful truth has its own gravity and eventually pulls people back to it.

There comes a moment in history when ignorance is no longer a forgivable offense... a moment when only wisdom has the power to absolve. - Bertrand Zobrist

I don't know where I would place myself in the literary landscape. I really just write the book that I would want to read. And I put on the blinders, and I really - it is, for me, that simple.

Pain is a part of growing-up. It is how we learn.