For almost anyone who chooses to be a writer, since so very few writers are able to learn a living from their work that is equivalent to the living earned by the average dentist or accountant.

If you dedicate your attention to discipline in your life you become smarter while you are writing than while you are hanging out with your pals or in any other line of work.

Motivations are too tangled and complex.

The United States particularly abandoned Liberia after the end of the Cold War.

Chimpanzees are endangered. Severely.

Luck can't last a lifetime unless you die young.

My major allegiance has been to storytelling, not to history.