Love is the water of life, drink deeply.

I was born and raised in Dublin, Ireland and it is still home to me. My writing has taken me all over the world, but this is the place I come back to and the place where I find it easiest to write.

You are not living, you are surviving.

Wait. Look. Notice. If you keep those three words in mind, you just might survive the next few days.

Negotiations are about controlling things, about being in the driver's seat and make one tiny mistake; you're dead. I made one tiny mistake, I wore women's clothes

They ex­pect­ed to lose. And there­fore, they lost. [..] Peo­ple who start think­ing deep dark thoughts in the mid­dle of a war start ex­pect­ing to lose.

I am a great believer that all the primary research has to be done before principle writing begins. I'm a huge advocate of plotting.