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

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

I really hate those books where the murderer turns out to be somebody you never heard of who pops up in the last chapter.

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

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

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.