I have a catch-phrase to describe my plot-generation technique -- 'What's the worst possible thing I can do to these people?'

A weapon is a device for making your enemy change his mind.

For me, writing is more a process of discovering the book than planning it.

On the sixth day God saw He couldn't do it all, so He created ENGINEERS

Not that I haven't leaped up into the blinding light of competence now and then. It's sustaining the altitude that defeats me.

War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation. It's peace that's wanted. Some better peace than the one you started with.

Miles added it to his life's lessons list. Call it Rule 27B. Never make key tactical decisions while having electro-convulsive seizures.