An overnight success is ten years in the making.

Every novel begins with the speculative question, What if "X" happened? That's how you start.

That's the ultimate pornography. There's nothing more pornographic than glorifying war.

There is an old saying: In history nothing is true but the names and dates. In fiction everything is true but the names and dates. The difference between reality and fiction? Fiction has to make sense.

The good old days are now.

There is a long and honorable tradition of citizens in service to their nation that goes back at least as far as Cincinnatus, the Roman citizen who, more than once answered his country's call, then returned to his farm and his family and his work.

Civilians listened to officers, which said a lot about the intelligence of civilians.