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

It's good to stay as close to real life as you can, and then kind of dress it up.

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

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

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.

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.

…made me promise to cut down on the drinking and swearing, which I have. Unfortunately, this has left me dim-witted and nearly speechless.