But if I worried too much about publishers' expectations, I'd probably paralyze myself and not be able to write anything.

Why waste time trying to discover the truth, when you can so easily create it?

Only I could drink a thousand drinks and never forget a damn thing. I would just remember every detail of the thousand drinks down to the shapes of the ice cubes.

Fiction is sort of a way to set the record straight, and let people at least believe that justice can be achieved and the right outcomes can occur.

I'd read a lot of thrillers about politicians and presidents, but never one where you flip the stereotypes and make good people bad and bad people good.

People have given me classified information, but always with the disclaimer 'This can never end up in a book.' And it never does.

It's not the beginning or the destination that counts. It's the ride in between.