Job happiness is directly proportional to the distance you are from the home office.

Chemical and biological attacks are scary and will kill a lot of people but dont rise to the level of nuclear.

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

Panic---a deep abiding, free-floating anxiety, often without any reason or logical basis.

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.

I think it's more difficult now to write a spy thriller with the collapse of the Soviet Union. Many authors have tried, but few have succeeded in capturing the interest of readers.