Generally, I read nonfiction. Theres very little fiction that I enjoy enough to spend my time reading. I am generally a nonfiction guy.

As we go through life our relationship with our own mortality and our inevitable demise increases.

When you make a choice as a writer about what it is you want to write, and what it is you're going to spend six months thinking about, you have to fall in love.

Sometimes you are lucky enough to get offered things and there is no rhyme or reason.

I am not a politics wonk. I like the idea of my writing reflecting more about who I am or other people.

To what degree are historians chroniclers of the truth and to what degree are they just novelists, frankly?

I just try and do something good. But as a writer, you're slightly out of control.