Panic – a deep abiding, free-floating anxiety, often without any reason or logical basis.
Lawrence Kelter is an exciting new novelist, who reminds me of an early Robert Ludlum.
I generally unwind by having dinner with close friends.
Everyone looked pensive, which is good cover-up for clueless.
Ernest Hemingway was the author I drew inspiration from.
It’s really scary when you have a moment of temporary sanity.
There are Mafia families that have bought magnificent houses on the North Shore, although not yet the great estates because they don’t want that kind of high profile.
A lot of our perception of history is influenced by inaccurate movies.
The meaning of life has not much to do with good and evil, right and wrong, duty, honor, country, or any of that. It has to do with cutting the right deal.
Job happiness is directly proportional to the distance you are from the home office.
Mrs. Corey still uses her maiden name for business, or when she wants to pretend she doesn’t know me.
It’s much different today than it was during the Cold War. The CIA is not the subject of many books anymore. But that might change, because of international terrorism and Red China.
Basically, all women are nurturers and healers, and all men are mental patients to varying degrees.
Kate had never been married, so she had no way of knowing if I was a normal husband. This has been good for our marriage.
There is no terra incognito left.
I think it’s more difficult now to write a spy thriller with the collapse of the Soviet Union. Many authors have tried, but few have succeeded in capturing the interest of readers.
Writing doesn’t leave much time for hobbies, unless you consider that I began writing as a hobby and have made the hobby into a profession.
You have to go out of your way as a suspense novelist to find situations where the protagonists are somewhat helpless and in real danger.
I’ve always been fascinated by the Gold Coast. The homes themselves are spectacular, unlike anything you’ll see other than in Newport, Bar Harbor or Palm Beach. It’s a very special area that, because of local demographics, is not going to survive much longer.
I sometimes use some personality traits to fashion part of a character. Most of my characters are composites of either people I know or people in the public eye.