Imagine how different a world might be if more leaders took time to ponder the finality of death before racing off to war.

I will not write a lame follow-up. It could take me 20 years. But I will never turn in a book that I'm not happy with.

Authors, he thought. Even the sane ones are nuts.

I spend my life essentially alone at a computer. That doesn't change. I have the same challenges every day.

For me, a good thriller must teach me something about the real world.

The laws of physics are the canvas God laid down on which to paint his masterpiece.

Each of us is now electronically connected to the globe, and yet we feel utterly alone.