Listening takes practice, and it takes patience. But I promise, if you listen, your story will be better for it.

We're not allowed to carry out harsh interrogations anymore, but we're allowed to fly over somebody's village, without due process, and kill them all?

In a novel, the relationship between writer and reader is such a pure one.

I feel like a centrist, an issue-specific person. I'm pretty conservative fiscally and pretty liberal on social issues.

In a novel, the only budgetary limitations are that of your imagination.

I guess I've always been an aspiring novelist. I went to Princeton and wrote a novel for my thesis.

I'm a member of the Pacific Council on International Policy.