I read 'Time', 'Newsweek' and 'The Economist'.

The world has gotten smaller and more accessible since I first started writing in the 70's.

I have no plans to use the Internet as the main subject of a novel.

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

Basically, all women are nurturers and healers, and all men are mental patients to varying degrees.

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.

I was trained in Army Intelligence, but spent most of my army career in the infantry. But like many people of my generation, I was very much caught up in the Cold War, and books and movies about espionage.