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

Most of my books are about contemporary subjects, and the world changes so fast that I'm lucky when events haven't overtaken the book I'm writing at the moment.

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.

You have to go out of your way as a suspense novelist to find situations where the protagonists are somewhat helpless and in real danger.

How you handle life depends a lot on how you handle plan B, or if you have a plan B.

Writing doesn't leave much time for hobbies, unless you consider that I began writing as a hobby and have made the hobby into a profession.

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