We all have a Monster within; the difference is in degree, not in kind.

It's a very bad habit, but one I find hard to break.

I'm pretty much a 9-to-5 kind of guy. I usually get to work about 8 in the morning, and I work until 4 or 5, and sometimes I work on Saturday and Sunday mornings. Pretty much I keep the same hours as an accountant or clerk or whatever.

Retribution is just outstanding.

There are so many journalists out there, I hate to say it, who are lazy and don't do their research - and it shows.

When I'm writing fiction I'm thinking, God, this is so hard - I have to make all this stuff up! I wish I were writing a nonfiction book where all the facts are laid out and I don't have to be so much at sea.

I need to write in a small room - the smaller the better. I can't write in a big room where someone might sneak up behind my back.