You think publishing is tough but the music world is ten times tougher.

The classical music world is so snobbish.

But in the next world I shan't be doing music, with all the striving and disappointments. I shall be being it.

Life is tough - and you have to be tougher than life to change the world.

When you work alone, you need to socialize at some level.

To answer that I have to describe what I think is my responsibility as a thriller writer: To give my readers the most exciting roller coaster ride of a suspense story I can possibly think of.