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

I'd rather talk to people who do things than complain about other people who do things. I say they're idiots.

The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.

Every person you meet - and everything you do in life - is an opportunity to learn something.

Man is a creature of hope and invention, both of which belie the idea that things cannot be changed.

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

I think it's an intellectual duty for a person who lives in a free society to read material not only with which you agree, but with which you disagree. Because every so often somebody you think is wrong will actually turn out to be right.