Telling your story out loud is the way human beings communicate. We don't normally think up words, translate how to spell them and then move our fingers up and down over this randomly arranged set of keys to make the same letters appear on a screen.

I want to make it so that so many things happen... that you didn't expect would happen in this series, that you realize that you have to read every one of them.

A moment of consideration often prevents a thousand apologies

I had a minor in Russian history, and this was at the time when the big Cold War was going on.

The great secret behind classified projects is that most of them are so utterly boring and uninteresting that James Bond wouldn't even take a second look at them.

Telling your story out loud is the way human beings communicate. We don't normally think up words, translate how to spell them and then move our fingers up and down over this randomly arranged set of keys to make the same letters appear on a screen.

The best place to start an adventure is with a quiet, perfect life . . . and someone who realizes that it can’t possibly be enough.