You have to know human behaviour … And the quality of your writing is absolutely capped at your understanding of human behaviour. You’ll never write above what you know about people.

A reversal is just anything that's a surprise. It's a way of keeping the audience interested.

Everyone I know who used to be in the intelligence community is moving into the corporate world.

Ambiguity depletes as your budget rises.

I love the idea of spies in love. How would it work between two people who were so programmed to lie and be suspicious, who have a whole life based on pretence?

The people in the Philippines are so extraordinarily nice.

No one can help you write. No one can teach you how to write.

Different people work different ways.

Fear changes everything. We're animals, and when we get afraid we act like animals. I'm not exempt from that.

I never really like it when other writers talk about coming in behind people and rewriting.

I like knowing where I am in action sequences if I'm supposed to.

This book is dedicated to those who have died as a result of mind control and/or ritual abuse, and those who have lived when they would rather have died.

Your life is always under construction. It is your job to learn how to untangle the threads and weave a tapestry that matches your desires.

Be gentle and humble in heart.

until we do what has not yet been done, what has not been done shall remain undone

Greed, like the love of comfort, is a kind of fear.

A retired husband is often a wife's full-time job.

Only what is fated to die is capable of living. Only what dies lives.

Pray for guidance and give thanks for your blessings everyday.

All my friends are artists, so I am used to collective agony as a mode.

To disregard what the world thinks of us is not only arrogant but utterly shameless. [Lat., Negligere quid de se quisque sentiat, non solum arrogantis est, sed etiam omnino dissoluti.]