To live as fully, as completely as possible, to be happy ... is the true aim and end to life.

He was trying to find his footing in a world both familiar and foreign

I sit with my knees pulled in tight and my arms wrapped around my shins. I can no longer feel my feet, as if blood refuses to spread so far from my heart.

The silence sat down with them like an invisible creature with its finger to its lips.

Before consulting the hotheads who present various military options such as a military invasion: remember, President Reagan, Rambo only exists in the movies.

Bad guys have more fun.

Personally, I think it is possible to build a society that is moral on a nonreligious basis, but the jury is still out on that.

The mind is furnished with ideas by experience alone

Sweden was very nice. I did a lot of television. I wrote, directed and was in a lot of television there.

The bottom line always remains the same: What is the basic humanity of the character? How do I make them resonate with the reader?

Information is a beacon, a cudgel, an olive branch, a deterrent--all depending on who wields it and how.