To Ronald Wilson Regan, The Fortieth President

The Only Real Difference Between A Wise Man And A Fool, Moore Knew, Was That The Wise Man Tended To Make More Serious Mistakes—and Only Because No One Trusted A Fool With Really Crucial Decisions; Only The Wise Had The Opportunity To Lose Battles, Or Nations.

Fix Your Eyes Forward On What You Can Do, Not Back On What You Cannot Change.

Fundamentally, I Think Of Myself As A Storyteller, Not A Writer.

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.

In The Soviet Union It Was Illegal To Take A Photograph Of A Train Station. Look What Happened To Them. They Tried To Classify Everything.