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.

Liberation and equal-rights issues notwithstanding, it was a man's job to make a woman feel cherished and respected.

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

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

And so began something that had not quite begun and would not soon end, with many people in many places moving off in directions and on missions which they all mistakenly thought they understood. That was just as well. The future was too fearful for contemplation, and beyond the expected, illusory finish lines were things fated by the decisions made this morning -- and, once decided, best unseen.

Probably what pushed the Russians over the edge was SDI... They realized they couldn't beat us...

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