Fighting wars is not so much about killing people as it is about finding things out. The more you know, the more likely you are to win a battle.

She didn't strike me as a "crossword in ink" kind of girl

No matter what you or anyone else does, there will be someone who says that there's something bad about it.

Suspense is achieved by information control: What you know. What the reader knows. What the characters know.

I've made up stuff that's turned out to be real, that's the spooky part.

The human condition today is better than it's ever been, and technology is one of the reasons for that.

Christ, how did you ever get this screwed up! his mind demanded of him. He knew the answer, but even that was not a full explanation. Different segments of the organism called John Terrance Kelly knew different parts of the whole story, but somehow they'd never all come together, leaving the separate fragments of what had ...once been a tough, smart, decisive and to blunder about in confusion - and despair! There was a happy thought.