But heroes, at times, had to be fools.

History serves as a model not only of who and what we are to be, we learn what to champion and what to avoid.

But heroes, at times, had to be fools.

The people can be forced to fear, but not to love.

I don't think my mum ever understood my love of Doctor Who. Surely her strongest memory would have been me, standing at the top of the stairs, crying about how the "jelly men" were going to get me? Sorry, Mum, for those sleepless nights, but it was with good reason they called it Terror of the Zygons.

I'm a morning person because I learned to write my novels while still practicing law. I would get to the office at 6:30 a.m. and write until other people arrived, around 9. Now I still do that. I start at 6:30 or 7, and I'll write until 11, then take an hour off, then work until about 2 p.m. By then my brain has had enough.

Everybody loves a thing more if it has cost him trouble.