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.

I do not over-intellectualize the production process. I try to keep it simple: Tell the damned story.

Collaboration on a book is the ultimate unnatural act.

The KGB still killed people, the KGB would not execute its last prisoner until the final days of its existence in 1991, but by the eighties a termination required paperwork and signatures and a post-action review.

There used to be this country called the Soviet Union; it's not there anymore. Our technology was better than theirs.

Courage is being the only only one who knows how terrified you are.