So, whenever I'm writing, I'm writing in the presence of all the other books I've read and I think we all are.

Real courage is doing the right thing when nobody's looking. Doing the unpopular thing because it's what you believe, and the heck with everybody.

I like creating villains.

The military was all about hierarchies, who urinated highest on the hydrant

It happened fast. Thirty-two minutes for one world to die, another to be born.

One of the traps or the pitfalls of writing a trilogy - or a triptych, or whatever term you want to use - is that the second book can be a long second act to get you from book one to book three, which borrows all of its energy from the first book.

I like to break left when people think I'm going to go right.