Success Will Ruin Your Life.

Jack Looked Out The Window As They Passed The Mormon Temple, Just Outside The Beltway Near Connecticut Avenue. A Decidedly Odd-looking Building, It Had Grandeur With Its Marble Columns And Gilt Spires. The Beliefs Represented By That Impressive Structure Seemed Curious To Ryan, A Lifelong Catholic, But The People Who Held Them Were Honest And Hardworking, And Fiercely Loyal To Their Country, Because They Believed In What America Stood For.

Things Rarely Happen For A Single Reason. Even The Cleverest And Most Skilled Manipulators Recognize That Their Real Art Lies In Making Use Of That Which They Cannot Predict.

When I Go To Peoples' Houses I Like To Sneak Into Their Bedrooms And Try On Their Underwear.

I Think About The Characters I've Created And Then I Sit Down And Start Typing And See What They Will Do. There's A Lot Of Subconscious Thought That Goes On. It Amazes Me To Find Out, A Few Chapters Later, Why I Put Someone In A Certain Place When I Did. It's Spooky.

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.