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

The Internet makes it possible for people like me to live the way I do now. Without it, I'd have to be in New York or some other city. I think the Internet is the greatest invention in history after antibiotics.

If there is no way out, the best course of action is to find a way further in.

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

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

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.

If you don't burn the candle at both ends, what's the candle got two ends for?