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.

I don't like mysteries, which is why I want to solve them. It bothers me that there are things I don't know.

The meaning of life has not much to do with good and evil, right and wrong, duty, honor, country, or any of that. It has to do with cutting the right deal.

There are Mafia families that have bought magnificent houses on the North Shore, although not yet the great estates because they don't want that kind of high profile.

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.

I like the process of pencil and paper as opposed to a machine. I think the writing is better when it's done in handwriting.

Even the most radical Islamic terrorist would not want to see the revered holy city of Medina go up. It would be like losing the Vatican in Rome.