...the Larger World Lay Not Across Oceans

Sooner Or Later. It Had Better Be Sooner. Later Is Like The Horizon; It Recedes As You Approach.

If A Man Lived Long Enough, His Past Would Always Overtake Him, No Matter How Fast He Ran Or How Morally He Tried To Live Subsequently. And How Men Dealt With That Law Ultimately Revealed Their True Natures.

I Have Not Written A Perfect Sentence, In The Literary Sense. It's A Lot Easier To Throw A Perfect Pass Than To Write A Perfect Sentence, If That Sentence Is Meant To Perform More Than A Mechanical Function.

A Lot Of My Books Have Been That Way. My World War Ii Thriller About Sarin Gas [black Cross] Was Published Two Months Before The Sarin Attack In The Japanese Subway. There Are Very Weird Coincidences Out There. And I Do Have One Surefire Plot I Have Not And Probably Never Will Write, Because Of My Fear Someone Will Carry It Out.

Some Things We Must Pass Over In Silence.