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

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

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

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

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.

I was the executive editor on a little magazine called Greek Accent, whose only claim to fame is that its art director went on to be the art director of Discover for many years.

Nobody in real life ever takes me seriously.