I sometimes use some personality traits to fashion part of a character. Most of my characters are composites of either people I know or people in the public eye.

If everyone howled at every injustice, every act of barbarism, every act of unkindness, then we would be taking the first step towards a real humanity.

Kate had never been married, so she had no way of knowing if I was a normal husband. This has been good for our marriage.

We're all pilgrims on the same journey but some pilgrims have better road maps.

Everyone looked pensive, which is good cover-up for clueless.

It's really scary when you have a moment of temporary sanity.

It's much different today than it was during the Cold War. The CIA is not the subject of many books anymore. But that might change, because of international terrorism and Red China.