I don't make my own schedule - it's constructed around my sons' school schedules.

People always seemed to know half of history, and to get it confused with the other half.

I tend to come up with people more than situations - most of my books start with a character.

Logic is a wonderful invention. It is so wonderful, people often mistake it for reason. Reason, however, requires sense. Logic requires only consistency.

Everybody is a True Believer. Everybody has a little nugget they're convinced of that is the opposite of the nugget on the other side. And they're convinced it's fact.

You've either got to find a way to make your continuing characters interesting without making them maudlin or overwrought, or you've got to put more emphasis on the suspects.

I'd like to write a history, maybe of the Reformation.