We cannot fail to win unless we fail to try.

Two questions form the foundation of all novels: "What if?" and "What next?" (A third question, "What now?", is one the author asks himself every 10 minutes or so; but it's more a cry than a question.) Every novel begins with the speculative question, What if "X" happened? That's how you start.

My life is a very simple life thank you

The difference between me and you is that I do good fiction.

It was one thing to use computers as a tool, quite another to let them do your thinking for you.

America is the most inventive country in the world. Why? Because everybody has access to information. In the Soviet Union it was illegal to take a photograph of a train station. Look what happened to them.

Bill Clinton is a man who thinks international affairs means dating a girl from out of town.