I feel like a centrist, an issue-specific person. I'm pretty conservative fiscally and pretty liberal on social issues.
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 only budgetary limitations are that of your imagination.
Where I came from, no one was a writer.
I'm a member of the Pacific Council on International Policy.
The novel remains a very special form for me.